A bandage usually covers a wound. This one comes with a bonus: it gives repair instructions. Researchers at Rice University ...

While the world might see addiction as a series of destructive choices, those battling substance use know it's often a desperate attempt to numb wounds that have never fully healed. These emotional ...

A team of UC Davis researchers led by bioengineer Aijun Wang has designed and tested a supportive structure, called a scaffold, that can help large deep burn wounds heal faster. The promising new ...

To detect wound complications as soon as they happen, researchers have invented a battery-free “smart suture” that can wirelessly sense and transmit information about wounds from deep surgical sites.

WATERBURY — Waterbury Hospital physicians have been using a new treatment for deep, chronic wounds in patients — their own skin. The new procedure, called autologous cell therapy, uses a small amount ...

Leading wound care experts mulled mixed feelings about technology, policy and workforce as 2025 inched toward its conclusion. Telehealth will continue to make inroads in wound care, predicted David ...

Monitoring surgical wounds after an operation is an important step to prevent infection, wound separation and other complications. However, when the surgical site is deep in the body, monitoring is ...

Nurses must be able to assess tissue condition, wound size, and signs of infection, and choose and apply various dressings, while also managing pain and preventing complications. Gain these skills and ...

Deep learning has transformed wound assessment by providing objective, reproducible analyses of wound images and quantitative metrics that support clinical decision-making. Convolutional neural ...