Imagine a bandage that doesn’t just cover your wound but actively works to heal it. Researchers at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China have created a flexible, programmable ...

Once upon a time, even a simple cut or scrape could be a death sentence. Before germ theory and today’s scientific understanding of medicine, infections ran rampant and took many lives. While we’re ...

Wound dehiscence is a surgery complication where the incision, a cut made during a surgical procedure, reopens. It is sometimes called wound breakdown, wound disruption, or wound separation. ‌Partial ...

Methods for handling burn wounds have changed in recent decades and are similar in adults and children. Increasingly aggressive early tangential excision of the burn tissue and early wound closure ...