Wound healing involves four stages: homeostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. The skin is the body's largest ...

It usually shows up on damaged skin such as inflamed wounds, dirty cuts, and areas with poor blood circulation. Although many different types of bacteria cause cellulitis, the two most common ...

Doctors are unsure why diabetes and obesity increase the risk of slow wound healing, but inflammation may provide a link. People with diabetes often have circulation issues due to the damage due ...

Inflammation works to handle and to eventually heal the wound. But inflammation is not always helpful, or even harmless. In autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and inflammatory ...

The infection travels to the joint via the bloodstream from another part of the body, such as a person's skin, nose, throat, ears, or an existing wound. Within hours to days, pain, inflammation ...

In a clinical study of 66 wounds, the device deemed 20 non-inflamed, 26 inflamed and 20 infected. When subjected to a machine learning algorithm known as k-nearest neighbor the researchers found ...

“In patients with diabetes, wound healing is impaired because of excess inflammation,” said Chandan Sen, one of the study’s corresponding authors. “Left untreated, these non ...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are elevated in inflamed wound environments, were effectively scavenged by the lignin in the hydrogel. This antioxidant activity reduces oxidative damage and ...