When he was 10 years old, Joseph Connell was burned on 30% of his body. His leg was so severely damaged the wound went down to the bone, and doctors told him he would never walk again. Connell had 360 ...

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A research article presents a significant breakthrough in the area of skin regeneration and wound healing. A research paper published today in Science Translational Medicine presents a significant ...

The future of burn and wound care is looking fishy—in a good way. New research suggests that a greater variety of fish skins can be used as wound dressings than currently assumed. Researchers at ...

Skin grafts genetically engineered from a patient's own cells can heal persistent wounds in people with an extremely painful dermatologic disease, a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial has shown. The ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus—one of the most common causes of skin and soft ...

Krystal DeVos is "grateful for modern medicine" after her newborn was saved by fish skin taken from wild North Atlantic cod containing omega oils and other natural elements Courtesy of Krystal DeVos ...

In a recently published phase 3 trial, credit card-sized cultured skin grafts corrected for the COL7A1 mutation that causes recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) and enabled most patients ...

When Krystal DeVos watches her young daughter, Eliana, play with an Ariel doll, her eyes fill with emotion. “I call her my little mermaid,” DeVos said of her daughter. Shortly after Eliana was born, ...

Medicare spending on “skin substitutes” made of dried placenta has soared as doctors pocket lucrative discounts from sellers. Credit...Photo illustration by The New York Times Supported by By Sarah ...