News tagged with healing


Enriched environment improves wound healing in rats

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

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.


Scientists discover way to jumpstart bone's healing process

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Rarely will physicians use the word "miraculous" when discussing patient recoveries. But that's the very phrase orthopaedic physicians and scientists are using in upstate New York to describe their emerging stem cell research ...


Maggot therapy similar to standard care for leg ulcers

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Larval (maggot) therapy has similar health benefits and costs compared with a standard treatment for leg ulcers, find two studies published on bmj.com today.


Research yields potential target for cancer, wound healing and fibrosis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research conducted by Allison Berrier, PhD, Assistant Professor of Oral and Craniofacial Biology at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Dentistry, and colleagues, provides insights that may help scientists ...


Researchers discover a new pathway that regulates inflammation

Researchers discover a new pathway that regulates inflammation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Inflammation, the body's earliest response to damage or infection, can aid the healing process and trigger an immune response against invading pathogens. But inflammation gone awry can also undermine health, ...


Cell injections accelerate fracture healing

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Long bone fractures heal faster after injections of bone-building cells. Research published in the open access journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders has shown that osteoblast cells cultured from a patient's own bone marrow ...


Advancement in tissue engineering promotes oral wound healing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oral tissue engineering for transplantation to aid wound healing in mouth (oral cavity) reconstruction has taken a significant step forward with a Netherlands-based research team's successful development of a gum tissue (gingival) ...


Researchers detail how aging undermines bone healing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers have unraveled crucial details of how aging causes broken bones to heal slowly, or not at all, according to study results published today in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. The research team also succes ...


New polymer coatings prevent corrosion, even when scratched

New polymer coatings prevent corrosion, even when scratched

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 4

Imagine tiny cracks in your patio table healing by themselves, or the first small scratch on your new car disappearing by itself. This and more may be possible with self-healing coatings being developed at ...


Plastic surgeons warn of malnutrition in body contouring patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Identifying malnutrition before surgery in massive weight loss patients seeking body contouring will significantly decrease surgical complications, accelerate wound healing, improve scar quality and boost patient energy levels, ...


Healing process found to backfire in lung patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A mechanism in the body which typically helps a person heal from an injury, may actually be causing patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to get worse, researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health ...


Scientists suspect omega-3 fatty acids could slow acute wound healing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A recent study shows that popular fish oil supplements have an effect on the healing process of small, acute wounds in human skin. But whether that effect is detrimental, as researchers initially suspected, remains a mystery.


Licking your wounds: Scientists isolate compound in human saliva that speeds wound healing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

[B]New research in the FASEB Journal raises expectorations for people with chronic wounds[/B] A report by scientists from The Netherlands published online in The FASEB Journal identifies a compound in human saliva that great ...


Effects of healing touch therapy being studied

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Often, a gentle hand on your shoulder when you're upset is all it takes to ease your mind and calm your nerves. Now, University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers are looking at a similar occurrence by pairing a complementary ...



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