Wounds and Healing News

April 17, 2025

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Your Skin Is Breathing: New Wearable Device Can Measure It

Apr. 9, 2025 — Rsearchers have developed the first wearable device for measuring gases emitted from and absorbed by the skin. By analyzing these gases, the device offers an entirely new way to assess skin health, including monitoring wounds, detecting skin ...

An Easy-to-Apply Gel Prevents Abdominal Adhesions in Animals

Mar. 12, 2025 — Up to 90% of abdominal surgeries result in adhesions -- abnormal scarring that ties together organs and tissues. A gel has now been shown to prevented adhesions in mice and ...

Asthma and Antibiotic Use May Predict Nasal Polyp Recurrence After Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

Feb. 4, 2025 — The probability of revision sinus surgery including the removal of nasal polyps is higher if the patient has asthma or is on antibiotics at the time of their initial surgery. However, higher age was ...

This Delicate Nanoflower Is Downright Deadly to Bacteria

Jan. 31, 2025 — A carnation-like nanostructure could someday be used in bandages to promote wound healing. Researchers report that laboratory tests of their nanoflower-coated dressings demonstrate antibiotic, anti-inflammatory and biocompatible properties. They say ...

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Porous Dermal Fillers Show Promise for Diabetic Wound Treatment

Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have developed a revolutionary injectable granular filler that could transform the way diabetic wounds are treated, potentially improving patient outcomes. The groundbreaking study ...

Scientists May Have Discovered Important Step in the Fight Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Oct. 24, 2024 — A small molecular strand could hold the key to solving one of the greatest global health challenges. When bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics, ...

Key Molecule in Wound Healing Identified

Oct. 8, 2024 — A new study has identified an RNA molecule that is important for skin wound healing. The research may have implications for the treatment of hard-to-heal ...

Spinning Artificial Spider Silk Into Next-Generation Medical Materials

Sep. 24, 2024 — It's almost time to dust off the Halloween decorations and adorn the house with all manner of spooky things, including the classic polyester spider webs. Scientists have made their own version of ...

Faster Detection of Dangerous Infections

Sep. 5, 2024 — In an infection, there are tens of thousands of peptides that provide a wealth of information about which bacteria have caused the infection and how severe it is. A research team combined clinical ...

New Technology 'Lights Up' Bacteria in Wounds for Better Infection Prevention

Aug. 27, 2024 — New research suggests there may be a more effective method to detect bacteria during wound ...

Treating Radiation Wounds With Aspirin Hydrogels

Aug. 12, 2024 — Radiation is a powerful tool for treating cancer, but prolonged exposure can damage the skin. Radiation-induced skin injuries are painful and increase a person's chances of infection and long-term ...

Electric Bandage Holds Promise for Treating Chronic Wounds

Aug. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed an inexpensive bandage that uses an electric field to promote healing in chronic wounds. In animal testing, wounds that were treated with these electric bandages healed 30% ...

How a Bacterium Supports Healing of Chronic Diabetic Wounds

July 25, 2024 — New research shows that a certain bug, Alcaligenes faecalis (A. faecalis), can facilitate healing of hard-to-treat wounds among people with diabetes. While there are many studies done on potentially ...

Nasal Microbiota Is Potential Diagnostic Biomarker for Sepsis

June 12, 2024 — A new study shows that analyzing nasal microbiota outperforms gut microbiota analysis to predict sepsis in the ...

Nano Drug Accelerates Diabetic Wound Healing in Mice

May 20, 2024 — Researchers have designed a regenerative medicine therapy to speed up diabetic wound repair. Using tiny fat particles loaded with genetic instructions to calm down inflammation, the treatment was ...

Medical School Scientist Creates Therapy to Kill Hypervirulent Bacteria

May 2, 2024 — Researchers are on a mission to kill drug-resistant bacteria, and a new study has identified a therapy that can penetrate the slime that such infections use to protect themselves from ...

Shoulder Surgeons Should Rethink a Common Practice, Study Suggests

Apr. 25, 2024 — Many surgeons remove the bursa when repairing rotator cuff injuries, but a new animal study suggests that the small tissue helps with ...

Wound Treatment Gel Fights the Battle Against Antibacterial Resistance

Apr. 2, 2024 — Polymer-based hydrogels are used to treat skin ailments and in tissue engineering because of their ability to retain water, deliver drugs into wounds, and biodegrade. However, they are complicated to ...

Discovery Has Potential to Solve the Billion-Dollar Global Cost of Poorly Managed Wound Healing

Mar. 27, 2024 — Scientists have uncovered a key step in the wound healing process that becomes disabled in diseases like diabetes and aging, contributing to a global healthcare cost of managing poorly healing wounds ...

Healing Eyes With Contact Lenses

Mar. 21, 2024 — A cross-disciplinary team has developed a new contact lens material that could act as a bandage for corneal wounds while releasing drugs in a controlled manner to help the eye heal ...

Revolutionary Chronic Wound Treatment Could Help Millions

Mar. 13, 2024 — An effective treatment for chronic wounds that does not involve antibiotics, but an ionised gas to activate a wound dressing, has been developed by a team of international ...

A Sprayable Gel Could Make Minimally Invasive Surgeries Simpler and Safer

Mar. 12, 2024 — The new GastroShield gel can be sprayed through an endoscope after polyps are removed during colonoscopy, protecting the gut and helping prevent complications from weakened gastrointestinal ...

Wound-Homing Molecule Accelerates Tissue Repair

Feb. 15, 2024 — Medical researchers have found a peptide which, when administered intravenously, homes in on the new blood vessels that are forming in damaged tissue. The peptide has been used as a delivery vehicle ...

Nanofiber Bandages Fight Infection, Speed Healing

Feb. 8, 2024 — Researchers have identified a new way to harness the antioxidant and antibacterial properties of a botanical compound to make nanofiber-coated cotton bandages that fight infection and help wounds ...

Small RNAs Take on the Big Task of Helping Skin Wounds Heal Better and Faster With Minimal Scarring

Feb. 1, 2024 — New findings report that a class of small RNAs (microRNAs), microRNA-29, can restore normal skin structure rather than producing a wound closure by a connective tissue (scar). Any improvement of ...

New Study Examines the Relationship Between the Rate of Wound Healing, the Circadian Rhythm, and 'Hair' on Cells

Dec. 21, 2023 — Nearly every organism on Earth follows a natural circadian rhythm that is coded by your cell's clock genes, which do exactly as you suspect from the name: regulate your body's rhythm on a ...

Revolutionary Seaweed and Carbonated Water Based Hydrogel for Treating Skin Wounds

Dec. 15, 2023 — Hydrogels have demonstrated promise for effectively treating skin wounds. However, currently available hydrogels adhere to the skin and swell when absorbing fluid discharge, causing the wound site to ...

NUS Scientists Develop Innovative Magnetic Gel That Heals Diabetic Wounds Three Times Faster

Oct. 19, 2023 — A team of researchers has engineered an innovative magnetic wound-healing gel that promises to heal diabetic wounds three times faster, reduce the rates of recurrence, and in turn, lower the ...

New Wound Healing Research Produces Full Thickness Human Bioprinted Skin

Oct. 4, 2023 — A research article presents a significant breakthrough in the area of skin regeneration and wound ...

Ultrathin Nanotech Promises to Help Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

Sep. 12, 2023 — Researchers have invented a nano-thin superbug-slaying material that could one day be integrated into wound dressings and implants to prevent or heal bacterial infections. The innovation -- which has ...

Breakthrough in Scarless Wound Recovery Achieved With Autologous Blood

Sep. 6, 2023 — A recent study has introduced a groundbreaking milestone in tissue regeneration by developing a technology that utilizes autologous blood to produce three-dimensional microvascular ...

Protein Found in Milk Speeds Up Wound Healing

July 26, 2023 — Bandages infused with casein, a protein that occurs naturally in cow's milk, significantly improved wound healing in rats compared to those in control groups, according to a new study by ...

How Diabetes Slows Healing in the Eye

July 18, 2023 — Investigators have provided new understanding of how diabetes delays wound healing in the eye, identifying for the first time two related disease-associated changes to the ...

Historical Medicine Suggests a New Way to Use Modern Treatments

July 12, 2023 — The mixture of honey and vinegar, also known as oxymel, has been used as a medical treatment throughout history and now scientists have established that this combination could have modern ...