When most people think of burn injuries, they think of damage to the skin. Burns also affect many other areas of the body because the skin plays such an important role in protecting the body from the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- New research in the January edition of Annals of Emergency Medicine reveals that cooling with running water is the best initial treatment for a child's burn. Researchers found that ...

Skin from cod and tilapia is being used to treat burns and other skin damage. Icelandic biotechnology company Kerecis has developed an FDA-approved cod-skin treatment that can speed up burn healing ...

An estimated 486,000 burn injuries occur per year—or about one every 65 seconds. As the American Burn Association advises, "Preventing a burn injury is always better than the pain and trauma of ...

Incorrect usage of acid-containing skin care products can cause facial chemical burns. To treat chemical burns on the face, a person should remove irritating products and wash the area in running ...

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