Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed new wound dressings that dramatically accelerate healing and improve tissue regeneration. The two different types of nanofiber dressings, described in separate papers, use naturally-occurring proteins in plants and animals to promote healing and regrow tissue.
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Southeastern Wound Healing Center has received two awards for excellence.
The center, an affiliate of Southeastern Health, has been honored with the 2017 Center of Distinction Award and the 2017 Robert A. Warriner III, M.D., Center of Excellence award, which were given to the center by Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services.
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The Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Services at Upper Valley Medical Center (UVMC) has been recognized with a national award for clinical and operational excellence. The 2017 Robert A. Warriner III Center of Excellence Award was presented by Healogics, the world’s largest wound care management company.
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The Advanced Wound Center at Western Missouri Medical Center has been designated as a National Center of Clinical Excellence by the nation’s largest wound-care company, Healogics Inc.
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Organogenesis Inc., a leading regenerative medicine company focused on the development, manufacture and commercialization of product solutions for the advanced wound care, surgical and sports medicine markets, today announced its PuraPly® Antimicrobial (AM) wound management product is now available in a new, easy-to-use 1.6 cm disc size.
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Healogics, Inc., the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services, today announced that it has appointed Lynn Merritt to serve as Chief Human Resources Officer. Merritt joined Healogics in 2015 as Vice President, Learning and Development.
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Windom Area Hospital (WAH) is heading into another construction phase, this time to open a comprehensive wound center to treat patients with chronic wounds. Nearly 1,700 patients within a 35-mile radius may have a need for specialized wound care, according to a 2016 study.
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Sometimes when you’re invested in a project you fail to notice things that turn out to be significant. Researchers in the Rice lab of chemist and bioengineer Jeffrey Hartgerink had just such an experience with the hydrogels they developed as a synthetic scaffold to deliver drugs and encourage the growth of cells and blood vessels for new tissue.
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Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have established that collagen derived from fish scales could be effective for various biomedical applications such as wound healing.
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Negative pressure wound therapy is a medical procedure in which a vacuum dressing is used on the surface of the wound which heals the acute, chronic and burn wounds. Negative pressure wound therapy is used treatment of various medical conditions such as diabetic ulcers, venous ulcers, arterial ulcers etc.
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