A spray solution of a patient’s own stem cells is healing their severe burns. So far, early experiments under a University of Utah pilot project are showing some remarkable results. What was once a ...

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (WPVI) -- Burn care has seen a host of breakthroughs in the past decade. Death rates have dropped by more than 50 percent since 1950. The latest innovation is bringing patients ...

Two-year-old Zed Merrick was severely burned after he knocked over a cup of hot tea that spilled on his chest. But today his scar is nearly gone thanks to a new spray-on treatment. The treatment, ...

After someone has suffered a heart attack, non-beating scar tissue grows back in place of the damaged cardiac tissue, leaving the heart permanently weakened. A newly developed spray-on medication, ...

A "spray-on skin" which coats a wound with a layer of skin cells could help healing, according to US and Canadian researchers. The spray was tested on 228 people with leg ulcers, which are painful ...

Sure, stem-cell research has had something of a controversial past, but a new revolutionary skin gun has the ability to spray away a burn victim’s unsightly injury. The medical device, which will be ...

Ever watch Wolverine’s body spit out bloody bullets and think ‘gee, I wanna be like that?’ The Air Force understands, and while it may not be able to give you Hugh Jackman’s beautiful body, it’s going ...

A woman who lost a third of her skin to deadly flesh-eating bacteria has been saved by a new miracle spray made of her own skin cells. After surgically removing vast portions of her skin, doctors in ...

An experimental skin spray has given a US woman back her skin after drug-resistant bacteria devoured most of the flesh on her left side. In January, Christin Lipinski, 37, developed flu-like symptoms ...

People with necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating bacteria as it's more commonly called, often lose extensive amounts of skin and may not have enough remaining tissue for skin grafts. But doctors may ...