Fearing a resurgence of the New World Screwworm parasite in the U.S., the Department of Agriculture block livestock imports ...

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

ZEVASKYN, the first and only cell-based gene therapy for patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB), now ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Human skin wounds heal at an average rate of 0.25 mm per day, nearly three times slower than in other primates, which heal at about 0.62 mm per day. This slower ...

An innovative skin substitute is giving hope to patients with wounds that refuse to heal properly. Virtually identical to human skin but without sweat glands or hair follicles, Apligraf works by ...

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 fly gets its name for how its maggots feed on an animal by burrowing, or screwing, into an open wound, creating "extension damage by tearing at the hosts' tissue with sharp mouth hooks," the ...

After years of using the drug to treat eczema, the 33-year-old’s skin suddenly stopped responding to the treatment. Ineta began breaking out in weeping rashes and open wounds, and developed an ...

Without functional type VII collagen and anchoring fibrils, the skin is fragile and blisters easily, leading to wounds that continually open and close, or fail to heal altogether. Patients often ...