As aging populations and rising diabetes rates drive an increase in chronic wounds, more patients face the risk of ...

Chronic wounds often spiral out of control because oxygen can’t reach the deepest layers of injured tissue. A new gel developed at UC Riverside delivers a continuous flow of oxygen right where it’s ...

Comprehensive and multidisciplinary clinical approaches to chronic wound care are important to the management of wounds in older adults, according to a recent review. Older adults are at a higher risk ...

Julian Mulia and Megan Leslie are co-founders of Calgary-based NanoTess. (Credit: NanoTess Inc.) Nancy Johnson was skeptical when her doctor asked if she would try a new treatment for a wound that had ...

Authors review the indications and contraindications, as well as the risks and benefits, of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in chronic wound management. Wounds that fail to proceed through the normal phases ...

Listening in on bacterial conversations could be the solution for improving chronic wound care, say researchers. Listening in on bacterial conversations could be the solution for improving chronic ...

For those who experience non-healing or chronic wounds caused by diabetes, poor circulation, trauma, or other conditions that keep them from doing things they love, Saint Anne’s Hospital has good news ...

Over the years, surgery has experienced a transition from being a trial and error-based approach towards evidence-based practice. To no surgically treated ailment does this truism apply more than ...

Many other factors can impede the ability of wounds to heal. In 2002, a wound consensus group developed the TIME guidelines for the treatment of chronic wounds. The components of this mnemonic are ...