“The repeated or prolonged use of traditional antibiotics in wound care, especially chronic wound treatments, can cause the emergence of bacteria, fungi and viruses resistant to these commonly used ...

A Master’s student from the University of Wolverhampton has developed a ground-breaking biodegradable wound dressing which ...

Proper wound care produces similar (and sometimes better) results without the use of a topical antibiotic. Neosporin is not ...

The use of antibiotics to prevent surgical wound (surgical site) infection is an accepted cornerstone of modern healthcare. This type of infection occurs in or around the incision a surgeon makes and ...

Concerned that your wound might be infected, the physician at the health center decides to prescribe an antibiotic ... in 2002, health care workers reported the first cases of vancomycin-resistant ...

MolecuLight Inc., a global medical device company pioneering point-of-care fluorescence imaging for measuring bacterial load ...

This enables using the material in many different products, such as wound care materials and coatings on medical devices that are used within the body. The researchers have theories about the causes ...

Systemic antibiotics with staphylococcal coverage are needed as most of the wound culture positive infections are caused by Staphylococcus species.

Example of wound care performed with metapleural gland secretions collected from the gland of the individual providing care. The infected ant is marked in white. We first observe wound care by the ...