The fight against skin infections could do without antibiotics. Researchers are exploring a radical solution: targeted electrical pulses. An innovative patch, applied directly to the skin, could ...

Colorado Park and Wildlife captured the animal last summer after it repeatedly preyed on livestock at a ranch near Kremmling.

Just one fly can lay up to 300 eggs at a time and is drawn "to the odor of a wound or natural opening on a live, warm-blooded ...

Combatting these wounds involves both managing the exposed tissue and treating any infection using topical and/or systemic antibiotics. Characterizing the bacterial composition of the skin microbiome, ...

Most diabetic wound care products are passive dressings, only providing a protective barrier against the external environment ...

If you’ve ever had surgery, you know firsthand how important it is to keep the wound from getting infected. There are special conductive sutures that sense changes in wound status via electrical ...

Oil-based substances, such as petroleum jelly, appear to disrupt this important process, and might increase the risk of wound infection, they say in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.