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 ...

Chronic skin wounds that never heal can be disfiguring and painful. In the journal Biomaterials, University of Connecticut bioengineers describe a special scaffold for new skin that also kills ...

Chronic wounds remain a significant clinical challenge, in part because it is difficult to deliver sustained, localized ...

Chronic wounds are open wounds that heal slowly, if they heal at all. For example, sores that occur in some patients with diabetes are chronic wounds. These wounds are particularly problematic because ...

Recently I had opportunity to provide care for a patient with a chronic wound. He asked what he could do to help his wound to ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A master cell bank has been completed for a product that will utilize fibroblasts to treat chronic wounds.

Authors review the indications and contraindications, as well as the risks and benefits, of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in chronic wound management. Wounds that fail to proceed through the normal phases ...