News tagged with healing
A second skin
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Despite advances in treatment regimens and the best efforts of nurses and doctors, about 70% of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at ...
Enhanced plasma shortens time off for injured athletes
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Injured athletes who have their own enriched plasma injected into their bodies are healing faster and spending less time on the bench or on the disabled list.
Experts: Placebo power behind many natural cures
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- People looking for natural cures will be happy to know there is one. Two words explain how it works: "I believe." It's the placebo effect - the ability of a dummy pill or a faked treatment to make people feel better, ...
Developmental drug may help bone fractures heal after radiation exposure
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A drug currently under development by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine may help bone fractures heal more quickly after radiation exposure, according to a study by Pitt researchers. The study's results will ...
Aggressive microdermabrasion induces wound-healing response in aging skin
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Microdermabrasion using a coarse diamond-studded instrument appears to induce molecular changes in the skin of older adults that mimic the way skin is remodeled during the wound healing process, according to a report in the ...
Building Up Broken Bones
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Any one of the 8 million Americans who suffer bone fractures each year knows how hard it is to wait for the bones to knit, or heal. Bone healing is also important for integration of dental ...
Diabetes weakens your bones
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Current research suggests that the inflammatory molecule TNF-α may contribute to delayed bone fracture healing in diabetics. The related report by Alblowi et al, "High Levels of TNF-α Contribute to Accelerated ...
Math used as a tool to heal toughest of wounds
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists expect a new mathematical model of chronic wound healing could replace intuition with clear guidance on how to test treatment strategies in tackling a major public-health problem.
Study Reveals New Role of Vitamin C in Skin Protection
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have uncovered a new role played by Vitamin C in protecting the skin.
New approach to wound healing may be easy on skin, but hard on bacteria
Aug 19, 2009 |
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In a presentation today (Aug. 19) to the American Chemical Society meeting, Ankit Agarwal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described an experimental approach to wound healing that could take ...
How to make a lung: Cell-regeneration molecules essential signals for early lung development
Aug 17, 2009 |
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A tissue-repair-and-regeneration pathway in the human body, including wound healing, is essential for the early lung to develop properly. Genetically engineered mice fail to develop lungs when two molecules ...
Nanodiamonds deliver insulin for wound healing
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacterial infection is a major health threat to patients with severe burns and other kinds of serious wounds such as traumatic bone fractures. Recent studies have identified an important new weapon for fighting ...
Students Embed Stem Cells in Sutures to Enhance Healing
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students have demonstrated a practical way to embed a patient’s own adult stem cells in the surgical thread that doctors use to repair serious orthopedic ...
Uncovering how cells cover gaps (w/ Video)
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, came a step closer to understanding how cells close gaps not only during embryonic development but also duringwound healing. ...
Enriched environment improves wound healing in rats
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 13, 2009 |
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Improving the environment in which rats are reared can significantly strengthen the physiological process of wound healing, according to a report in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE.
