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 ...

June marks the 10 th annual Wound Care Awareness Month. The month focuses on educating the underserved chronic wound population about the importance of early detection and treatment of chronic wounds.

University of Oregon researchers have tested a new combination drug therapy that could dismantle the difficult-to-treat bacteria inhabiting chronic wound infections. Their findings, published Sept. 29 ...

For most people, wound healing is a natural, uneventful process. But for some individuals, it becomes a complex medical problem requiring specialized treatment and care. Diabetes, older age, ...

In Singapore, a new smart wearable sensor can assess chronic wounds in real-time and wirelessly via a mobile app. The technology was developed by a research team from the National University of ...

Timely and effective monitoring of wound healing status is critical to wound care and management. Impaired wound healing, such as chronic wounds (i.e. those that do not heal after 3 months) and ...

Jenna Cash receives funding from the Wellcome Trust, Royal Society and the British Skin Foundation. She has provided consulting services for third parties including pharmaceutical companies. Current ...

Researchers have created a bandagelike device that can seal up wounds in a revolutionary way. This device could be the next big thing in modern medicine when it comes to healing acute and chronic ...

A research team led by Professor Lim Chwee Teck from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech), ...

Maggot therapy is a wound healing technique in which healthcare professionals apply medical grade maggots to dead or infected tissue to keep the wound clean. It is also known as larval therapy. Maggot ...