“She was fighting for her life,” Angie Foy tells PEOPLE exclusively about her daughter Harper, who was born with a genetic skin disorder requiring three hour-long showers a day Courtesy Angie Foy When ...

WATERBURY — Waterbury Hospital physicians have been using a new treatment for deep, chronic wounds in patients — their own skin. The new procedure, called autologous cell therapy, uses a small amount ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Burn surgeons at Baton Rouge General are using a new spray-on skin technology on nearly every burn patient, making the healing process faster and less painful while reducing ...

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VTT has developed a skin spray, based on nanocellulose and antimicrobial compounds from wild berries, which can be used to treat wounds and eliminate hospital-acquired bacteria such as MRSA before ...

A non-contact wearable device measures the skin’s ‘microclimate’ for continuous, real-time monitoring of wounds and wound healing. Read the paper: A non-contact wearable device for monitoring ...

“[...] topical ABT-263 effectively reduced several senescence markers in aged skin, thereby priming the skin for improved subsequent wound healing ...

An open wound is like a battlefield. On one side are pathogenic microbes, trying their best to sneak into the cozy confines of the body. Standing guard are immune and connective tissue cells, working ...

When the skin is injured, a stem cell’s survival instincts kick in. New research reveals that a simple amino acid, serine, helps push stem cells to abandon hair growth in favor of wound healing, ...