Within seconds of an injury to our skin, bacteria begin to colonise the wound. Most minor wounds still heal as the skin and tissues underneath repair themselves. But if a wound becomes infected, inflammation and tissue damage will slow the healing process and lead to severe problems if not treated rapidly.
Read MoreMercy Medical Center is partnering with Healogics VeinCare services to advance its outpatient treatments for conditions like venous leg ulcers at its Weldon Rehabilitation Hospital on its Springfield campus.
Read MoreElectroceutical wound dressings, especially those involving current flow with silver based electrodes, show promise for treating biofilm infections. However, their mechanism of action is poorly understood. We have developed an in vitro agar based model using a bioluminescent strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to measure loss of activity and killing when direct current was applied.
Read MoreNew research, published in The Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, reveals that the unique phenolic acids found in wild blueberries speed up the migration of cells that line our blood vessels (endothelial cells). Cell migration (the moving of cells in order to begin forming new tissue) is an integral part of angiogenesis (the development of blood vessels to supply the newly forming tissue) and the wound healing process.
Read MoreKatherine Crabbe is a Registered Nurse specializing in wound care for Parrish Medical.
Read MoreOrganogenesis Holdings Inc. today announced that a new case series published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Global Open suggests PuraPly® Antimicrobial (PuraPly AM) positively affects the course of healing in a variety of complex, chronic wounds that were previously unresponsive to treatment.
Read MoreScientists have created such a mobile skin bioprinting system — the first of its kind — that allows bi-layered skin to be printed directly into a wound.
Read MoreHealing of non‐traumatic skin ulcers is often suboptimal. Prognostic tools that identify people at high risk of delayed healing within the context of routine ulcer assessments may improve this, but robust evidence on which factors to include is lacking.
Read MoreWound care medical device designer DTAMedical has announced the inclusion of a first patient in a clinical trial with VistaCare ONE for the treatment of acute and chronic wounds, via a concept of contactless Wound Environment Control (WEC) therapy.
Read MoreMerakris Therapeutics has developed a system designed to mimic cell-cell interactions in utero to produce maximal secreted protein output that is harvested from co-cultured stem cells. Initial experiments indicate it is a strong candidate to support early-phase wound healing.
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