University of Oregon researchers have tested a new combination drug therapy that could dismantle the difficult-to-treat ...

Scabs form when a wound dries out and the tissue dies. Maintaining a moist wound environment will prevent scabbing and allow ...

When a wound turns septic, healing can quickly become a battle. Antibiotics have been the go-to defense for decades, but ...

When KETV visited the lab, the team was testing the technology on samples of pig skin."When we cut open any tissue, there is ...

Looking “under the hood” of a cell during chlorate-antibiotic exposure will help investigate how bacteria become susceptible to a range of antibiotics.

For some patients undergoing surgery, the journey is just beginning after they leave the hospital. Surgical site infections are among the most common post-op complications, affecting 2% to 4% of ...

(Oct. 26, 2011) - Thomas Jefferson University Hospital surgeons have found that a carefully-selected surgical care check list of 12 measures reduced Whipple procedure wound infections by nearly 50 ...

Current practice for clinicians trying to determine whether a patient’s wound is infected entails plating the bacteria and letting it incubate overnight, a process than can take 24 hours to complete.

Wound infection, which is potentially avoidable, is a common, expensive complication of abdominal surgery; in this report, the overall infection rate was 20% (10/50 patients). This trial found that a ...

If you have any injury with open skin, you need to take care of it to avoid infection. Keeping a wound clean, washing your hands before touching it, and following any instructions from your doctor ...

These facts are in keeping with the general impression gained from the current medical literature and recent meetings — namely, that the number of patients with malignant forms of staphylococcal ...