University of Central Florida researchers have developed SilFoam, a new foam-based treatment to stop severe bleeding.

You may know the Heimlich Maneuver to help a choking person, you are likely familiar with Stop Drop and Roll for people who ...

As violence spikes in Cleveland’s summer months, MetroHealth Medical Center’s emergency room is at its busiest. Its doctors, ...

"Head and face wounds don’t have to be serious to produce an alarming amount of blood. When things were cleaned up, there were several scratches and scrapes," columnist Terry Woster writes.

Skin grafts genetically engineered from a patient's own cells can heal persistent wounds in people with an extremely painful dermatologic disease, a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial has shown ...

In patients with diabetic foot ulcers that looked healed and met the current definition of a closed wound, closed ulcers with functionally defective skin that lost more body water were likely to ...

Grafting gene-corrected cellular sheets onto chronically open wounds of patients with RDEB promises the potential to provide long-term healing of wounds, reduction in pain and reduced risk of ...

The goals for wound repair of traumatic lacerations are to attain hemostasis of the wound, improve appearance, and decrease infection.

Human wounds take almost three times as long to heal as the injuries of other mammals, including chimpanzees, which are among our closest living relatives.

In a phase 3 trial, 81% of wounds treated with autologous cell sheet-based gene therapy showed ≥ 50% healing at 6 months, compared with 16% in matched control wounds treated with standard of care.

Discover evidence-based strategies for healing diabetic wounds, from immediate care steps to advanced treatments, nutritional support, and prevention techniques ...

An open wound leaves internal tissue exposed. They require special care depending on the type of wound. Minor open wounds may not require medical treatment.