Plants and animals inspire tissue-restoring dressings
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Kimberly Marselas
May 08, 2018
Engineers have developed two new nano ber dressings that accelerate healing and improve tissue regeneration. Both dressings — created by researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering...
New skin patch helps keep diabetic foot ulcers at bay
By
Amy Novotney
Jan 01, 2015
Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a drug delivered through a skin patch that not only helps diabetic foot ulcers heal faster, but prevents the wounds from recurring.
New treatment may dispense old ideas about wound care
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 09, 2018
Imagine rolling a tape dispenser over a wound, leaving behind a strip of cells that will generate new skin. Researchers at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Hospital are getting close. They...
Ask the treatment expert … about determining what is really a pressure ulcer
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Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
May 08, 2015
Clinicians may have difficulty in determining if a wound is truly a pressure ulcer. It is essential to not only assess the wound, but also perform a complete skin assessment and obtain a history. To be...
Pregnant paws: Fish skins a success at healing wounds
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2018
A technique being explored as a treatment for human wounds helped save the lives of three bears in California this winter.
Wireless smart bandage makes short work of chronic wounds
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 25, 2023
A Stanford University research team has created a smart bandage made of a thin, flexible printed circuit and a wireless power source that provides electrical stimulation to injured tissue.
Skin-like sensors could detect healing
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2019
A new form of electronics that integrates with human skin could allow wound tracking in real time over long periods.
Cells ‘flock’ to heal skin wounds: study
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John O'Connor
Mar 02, 2013
Rice University scientists have determined that skin cells coordinate their motions as they race to cover and ultimately heal wounds. Investigators compared this motion to the way many birds swoop and...
Commission updates wound care guidance
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 07, 2023
The Joint Commission has issued new guidance on pressure injuries to better equip nursing home care staff and others.
Skin adhesives may improve negative pressure therapies
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Nov 05, 2015
Using a skin adhesive under negative pressure wound therapy dressings can help maintain a durable seal for wounds located on hard-to-fit places of the body, a new case study has found.