Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage ...

From honey poultices to superglued cuts, explore some of the weirdest wound care hacks ever attempted – and why knowing the ...

Traumatic lacerations are a common condition seen in the emergency department (ED), accounting for approximately 8% of visits or an estimated 7 to 9 million lacerations treated each year. 1 There are ...

A study published April 12 in Nature Communications identifies a protein that helps prevent excessive scarring. The protein, ...

A researcher analyzes burn-healing gene activity to study how early ... These genes help trigger pain responses, promote scar tissue formation, cause inflammation, and close wounds. According to ...

They found that human wounds took more than twice as long to heal as wounds of any of the other mammals. Our slow healing may be a result of an evolutionary trade-off we made long ago, when we ...

Developed through genetic engineering, this gel-forming biomaterial aims to support wound healing by promoting granulation tissue formation, encouraging angiogenesis, and facilitating ...