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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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.
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.
Researchers discover a new pathway that regulates inflammation
Mar 11, 2009 |
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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, ...
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.
Research yields potential target for cancer, wound healing and fibrosis
Mar 18, 2009 |
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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 ...
New polymer coatings prevent corrosion, even when scratched
Dec 09, 2008 |
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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Healing process found to backfire in lung patients
Oct 27, 2008 |
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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 discover way to jumpstart bone's healing process
Apr 14, 2009 |
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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 ...
