While your skin graft is healing, you should generally avoid strenuous activity for two or more weeks after surgery. Unless there's odor, drainage, or pain, your bandages should be left in place ...

The skin healing process. If you have a cut or burn, you may be left with a scar. This is because fibroblasts in scar tissue form collagen differently than in regular tissue.

Reducing a skin graft’s responsiveness to its physical environment could help improve healing and reduce scarring from large injuries like burns or blast wounds, according to our recent study ...

In a world first, researchers have printed multi-layered, living skin directly onto significant injuries in rats for scar-free skin repair. It's not sci-fi – they're genuinely 3D-printing skin ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Noncontact low-frequency ultrasound speeds the healing of split-thickness skin grafts and reduces itching, a new study shows. The technique could help many patients suffering ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) causes painful bumps under the skin, typically on skin folds, like the groin area, armpits, inner thighs, buttocks, and under ...

The fish skin provided a platform for Eliana's body to grow new skin tissue, aided by omega oils and other natural elements. "Once it basically does its job helping the wound heal then it sort of ...

The skin of Atlantic cod and tilapia can be used as a skin graft for ... Icelandic biotechnology company Kerecis has developed an FDA-approved cod-skin treatment that can speed up burn healing and ...