In recognition of Wound Healing Awareness Month, Ozarks Healthcare will host a free Community Education Dinner on Thursday, June 26, at 5:30 p.m. in the Willard Hunter Classroom at the Ozarks ...

Then they settled on a plastic surgery recipe far longer than just a deep plane facelift: It also included a neck lift, a ...

Krystal's Vyjuvek innovative gene therapy leads DEB treatment, overshadowing Abeona's Zevaskyn. Check out the comparison ...

During the wound-healing process, there's an increase in fibroblast activity, which revs up collagen production in the skin. If your skin produces a little too much collagen around the site of a wound ...

In the skilled nursing world, payers are always checking where the money is going and ensuring any services billed are accurate. Often, this does not shake us until the bill is denied. The solution is ...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned through discussing wound care with my patients over the years, it’s that some of the greatest obstacles are not medical, but myths.

HBO therapy works by surrounding a patient with 100 percent oxygen at two-and-a-half times greater than normal air pressure.

Krystal DeVos gave birth to her daughter Eliana prematurely, leading to a severe wound on her neck. She described how doctors ...

The goals for wound repair of traumatic lacerations are to attain hemostasis of the wound, improve appearance, and decrease infection.

A nurse-led initiative at a Denver hospital led to fewer complications for female patients recovering from open-heart surgery and decreased the wound incidence rate following sternotomies from 6.4% to ...

Q: Should we accept a post-surgical rehab patient with a hospital-acquired wound? A: An estimated 1 in 4 postoperative wound complications occur within 14 days of hospital discharge. Some patients ...