News articles tagged with 'healing'
Study identifies significant savings on venous leg ulcer dressings
— 14 Oct 2009 11:03 | HealthThe UK National Health Service could save millions of pounds a year by routinely using inexpensive dressings to treat venous leg ulcers, after a study published in the October issue... — full story
Math used as a tool to heal toughest of wounds
— 22 Sep 2009 10:39 | HealthScientists expect a new mathematical model of chronic wound healing could replace intuition with clear guidance on how to test treatment strategies in tackling a major public-health... — full story
New approach to wound healing may be easy on skin, but hard on bacteria
— 19 Aug 2009 15:42 | HealthIn a presentation today to the American Chemical Society meeting, Ankit Agarwal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described an experimental approach... — full story
Iron-binding drug could help diabetics heal stubborn wounds
— 28 Jul 2009 09:30 | HealthA drug used to remove iron from the body could help doctors fight one of diabetes' cruelest complications: poor wound healing, which can lead to amputation of patients' toes, feet and... — full story
Students embed stem cells in sutures to enhance healing
— 21 Jul 2009 12:20 | HealthJohns Hopkins biomedical engineering students have demonstrated a practical way to embed a patient's own adult stem cells in the surgical thread that doctors use to repair serious orthopaedic... — full story
Uncovering how cells cover gaps
— 26 Jun 2009 11:35 | BiologyResearchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, came a step closer to understanding how cells close gaps not only during embryonic development... — full story
The latest in technology looks into some old bones
— 12 Jun 2009 18:15 | Geology and palaeontologyMany of us have broken bones in our bodies at one time or another, and when this happens a healing process begins. The same was true of animals in the past, and has been well documented... — full story
Rosiglitazone does not harm bone healing if combined with metformin in rats
— 12 Jun 2009 16:13 | HealthTaking the diabetes medications metformin and rosiglitazone together reverses the adverse effects on bone of rosiglitazone treatment alone in an experimental model, according to a new... — full story
Model for new generation of blood vessels challenged
— 1 Jun 2009 14:03 | HealthIn-growth and new generation of blood vessels, which must take place if a wound is to heal or a tumour is to grow, have been thought to occur through a branching and further growth... — full story
Enriched environment improves wound healing in rats
— 13 May 2009 09:42 | HealthImproving the environment in which rats are reared can significantly strengthen the physiological process of wound healing, according to a report in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed... — full story