Rice University researchers developed a "living bandage" that uses engineered cells to deliver healing proteins directly to ...

Approximately 6.5 to 6.7 million people in the U.S. are affected by chronic wounds each year, and this number is expected to increase as the population ages. Poor blood circulation, high blood sugar ...

Chronic wounds remain a significant clinical challenge, in part because it is difficult to deliver sustained, localized ...

Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has become a central tool in modern wound care, helping clinicians manage complex wounds, support graft survival, and reduce postoperative infection risk.

Researchers at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation and the University of Arizona College of Medicine have ...

Complicated, hard-to-heal wounds are a growing medical problem and there are currently only two drugs approved with proven efficacy. In a new study on humans, researchers show that treatment with a ...

Researchers with Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology have detailed the development of a seemingly futuristic hydrogel that may one day be used as a dressing to protect wounds. The hydrogel is ...

For moderately severe open wounds, the safest and most effective over-the-counter (OTC) antiseptics include iodine, biguanides, and peroxides. Antiseptics are chemical solutions applied topically to ...