Just thinking about poison ivy can make you itch. Blistering rashes on your arms and ankles, oozing bumps between your fingers and eyelid-swelling exposures are all-too-familiar summer hazards.

Winch (2014) explains that while most people instinctively treat a physical wound, they fail to recognise psychological wounds like rejection or failure, allowing them to worsen over time.

The iCares bandage uses innovative microfluidic components, sensors, and machine learning to sample and analyze wounds and provide data to help patients and caregivers make treatment decisions.

The resulting guidelines are designed to help clinicians recognize symptoms earlier, coordinate multidisciplinary treatment more effectively, and manage complex wounds. Perhaps most importantly ...

Caltech professor of medical engineering Wei Gao and his colleagues are envisioning a smart bandage of the future—a "lab on ...

Read on to learn more about what could be to blame for the grittiness and how doctors treat this condition ... Blepharitis is inflammation of your eyelids. The condition might cause eyelids ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reports the majority of tick-borne diseases occur between June and August, but ...

In a groundbreaking observation, a Sumatran orangutan named Rakus was seen using a medicinal plant to treat a facial wound. This remarkable behavior provides new insights into the self-medicating ...

Any open wound that may need sutures should be seen as soon as possible. Ideally, they should be checked and closed within 6 hours. Reason: to prevent wound infections. There is no cutoff, however, ...

State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School of Radiation Medicine and Protection & Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, ...