Diabetes significantly complicates the wound healing process through multiple mechanisms that work against the body’s natural recovery abilities. High blood glucose levels damage blood vessels, ...
Cellulitis is an infection of the deep layers of the skin. It develops when bacteria enter through a cut, bite, or wound — including tiny breaks in cracked, dry skin. Common skin-dwelling bacteria, ...
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This story gave the incorrect telephone number for St. John Wound Center. The number is 712-3377. The 78-year-old man cried after a persistent wound on his left leg healed in only two months. It was ...
A thermal-imaging tool to screen for chronic wounds could enable nurses to identify these hard-to-heal sores during the first assessment at a person's home. Nearly half a million Australians live with ...
On our day to day lives, we fall down, or sometimes get a paper cut, or just a kitchen mishap may happen. Then there it is, a wound. It is such a simple, everyday life thing, but have we ever thought ...
A drop-in clinic where patients can listen to piano music and chat over tea and cake while having their leg wounds treated, ...
Dr. Jeff Monash, Tucson wound care specialist, applies medical grade honey wound treatment at Wound Center of Tucson. Dr. Monash partners with Tucson Vein & Body to bring new hope to patients with ...