Burn surgeons at Baton Rouge General are using a new spray-on skin technology on nearly every burn patient, making the ...

Reducing a skin graft’s responsiveness to its physical environment could help improve healing and reduce scarring from large injuries like burns or blast wounds, according to our recent study ...

Raw egg whites are a dangerous burn “remedy.” Burn specialists warn they can introduce Salmonella, trigger allergies and ...

The application of a small number of fetal cells can heal the wounds of young burn victims, researchers in Switzerland report. The new procedure can produce a speedier and more complete recovery than ...

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (WPVI) -- Burn care has seen a host of breakthroughs in the past decade. Death rates have dropped by more than 50 percent since 1950. The latest innovation is bringing patients ...

Your specialist needs to look at your burn to decide how serious it is. They will search for signs of skin damage: How many layers of your skin are injured The size of the affected area The location ...

An experimental therapy that uses skin cells grown from an aborted fetus successfully healed severe burns in eight children, sparing them the need for skin grafts, according to a study published today ...

New research has made an exciting leap forward in understanding how skin heals, which could lead to drug treatments to vastly improve wound healing. People who suffer severe burns or extensive skin ...

Kellen Chen receives funding from the Plastic Surgery Foundation Translational Grant Award and C-DOCTOR (supported by the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research and National Institutes ...