Even after she began to recover from second- and third-degree burns suffered in a cooking fire in the kitchen of her Homewood home, Janean Dyson had other injuries that were not so apparent to others.

Researchers create a biomimetic model to study wound healing in burn and laceration wounds. The team designed an in vitro model system made of fibroblasts embedded in a collagen hydrogel. Wounds were ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Burn surgeons at Baton Rouge General are using a new spray-on skin technology on nearly every burn patient, making the healing process faster and less painful while reducing ...

The sudden pain of a minor kitchen burn sends most people rushing for commercial burn creams or ointments tucked away in medicine cabinets. Yet these pharmaceutical options, while convenient, often ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The impacts of fire injuries extend far beyond the physical, and they can affect mental health and well-being for a lifetime. To address this, staff from VCU Health Evans Haynes Burn ...

One of the challenges in treating burn victims is the frequency of dressing changes, which can be extremely painful. To bring relief to this and other problems, University of Waterloo researchers have ...

In an effort to help burn victims, Brazilian doctors are turning to an unconventional, never-been-tested-before source for skin bandage: tilapia skin. Patients undergoing treatment in the landmark ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a neural network model that uses terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) data for non-invasive burn assessment. They combined the new approach with a ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

Second-degree burns occur when heat, chemicals, light, or electricity damage the first two layers of your skin. The appearance of a second-degree burn sets them apart from a less severe first-degree ...