Discover research-backed methods to speed up healing after getting stitches. From optimal nutrition to proper wound care, ...

Haemostasis (clot formation) halts the bleeding, and the body quickly forms a blood clot in response to injury. Inflammation ...

Slow wound healing can be a symptom of a chronic health issue, such as diabetes. Learn about the role of inflammation and ...

“Keeping your scrape covered and moist facilitates this process. Exposing wounds to air does not.” The best way to get on the ...

In S'pore, about four people have their lower limbs amputated each day due to non-healing diabetic wounds. Read more at ...

Calgary-based NanoTess makes a gel called NanoSALV that's designed to to help heal chronic wounds, skin injuries, infections ...

Wounds are breeding grounds for microbes such as bacteria, fungi and viruses. Wound infection can cause delayed healing, loss of skin grafts (where healthy skin is removed from an unaffected area of ...

Many people with diabetes develop foot ulcers—open wounds on the feet—that are dangerous because almost half of them become infected. Infections can lead to hospital stays and sometimes force doctors ...