Researchers at the University of Arizona say a previously unknown population of circulating immune cells play a critical role ...

Researchers at Stanford believe they may be on the trail of a drug that could allow the skin to heal without scars. For millions of Americans, scars are a fact of life. But for more than three decades ...

Scar revision is a broad term that’s used to describe techniques that minimize or improve the appearance of scars. Simply put, scars are growths of fibrous tissue that form as part of your body’s ...

When it comes to your skin, getting older isn’t all bad news. Older people heal skin wounds with thinner scars. As a practicing dermatologist, my physician colleagues and I make this somewhat ...

When surgery is performed on infants in utero, it's not uncommon for them to be born without any scars. This comes thanks to a special quality of their skin which scientists now believe could be ...

We all stand the risk of accumulating scars throughout our lifetimes, but curiously, in old age, the likelihood that a wound will leave a thick, ugly scar is much reduced. How older skin is advantaged ...

Many patients seek out their local Emergency Department across the country on a daily basis for management of open wounds that usually include primary closure with either sutures or staples. Open ...

Researchers have discovered a rare example in which the mammalian body functions better in old age. A team has found that, in skin wounds in mice, being older increased tissue regeneration and ...