Medical research
New way to reduce scarring
Researchers have been able to reduce scarring by blocking part of the healing process in research that could make a significant difference for burns and other trauma patients.
May 7, 2021
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News tagged with wounds
Surgery
Dexamethasone treatment safe in surgery
A large scale trial by Monash University has definitively found a drug commonly used during anaesthesia before surgery to prevent nausea and vomiting does not increase the risk of a surgical wound infection as once feared.
May 5, 2021
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Medical research
Preclinical discovery triggers wound healing, skin regeneration
Difficult-to-treat, chronic wounds in preclinical models healed with normal scar-free skin after treatment with an acellular product discovered at Mayo Clinic. Derived from platelets, the purified exosomal product, known ...
Apr 28, 2021
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Medical research
Inhibiting certain fibroblasts in the skin eliminates scarring in mice
A team of researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine has found that inhibiting the production of a certain fibroblast in the skin can eliminate scarring—at least in mice. In their paper published in the journal ...
Cardiology
Newly discovered immune cell function vital to healing
Cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death, is the result of oxygen deprivation as blood perfusion to affected tissue is prevented. To halt the development of the disease and to promote healing, re-establishment ...
Apr 23, 2021
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Biomedical technology
Seaweed molecules found to aid wound healing
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterial Science (ACES) and University of Wollongong (UOW), in partnership with their seaweed bioinks collaborators Venus Shell Systems, have discovered that a molecular ...
Apr 9, 2021
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Medical research
Next-generation sutures can deliver drugs, prevent infections and monitor wounds
Sutures are used to close wounds and speed up the natural healing process, but they can also complicate matters by causing damage to soft tissues with their stiff fibers. To remedy the problem, researchers from Montreal have ...
Apr 7, 2021
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Biomedical technology
Electricity could help speed wound healing, new study shows
Electric stimulation may be able to help blood vessels carry white blood cells and oxygen to wounds, speeding healing, a new study suggests.
Mar 11, 2021
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Medical research
Foodborne fungus impairs intestinal wound healing in Crohn's disease
Eating is a dangerous business. Naturally occurring toxins in food and potentially harmful foodborne microbes can do a number on our intestines, leading to repeated minor injuries. In healthy people, such damage typically ...
Mar 11, 2021
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Neuroscience
Updates on the Baylor cranial gunshot wound prognosis score
In 2014, the Journal of Neurosurgery published a paper by a group of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who developed a prognostic scoring system for use in patients who present to the emergency department ...
Mar 9, 2021
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