An open wound is an injury involving an external or internal break in your body tissue, usually involving the skin. Nearly everyone will experience an open wound at some point in their lives. In ...

When you're cringing in a painful moment trying to discern whether sutures may be necessary, here an ER doctor helps you make the call.

An open wound is any internal or external injury that exposes internal tissue to the external environment. People can sometimes treat acute open wounds at home with medications and natural remedies.

If a person wishes to try turmeric for a wound, they should limit usage to closed, minor wounds. An open injury would require medical-grade products with a doctor’s approval.

A small team of biologists from Freie Universität Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, both in Germany, has calculated the degree of risk faced by wild fruit flies by ...

A skin abrasion is a type of open wound that’s caused by the skin rubbing against a rough surface. It may be called a scrape or a graze. When an abrasion is caused by the skin sliding across ...

In mouse models of radiation-induced skin injury, the researchers found that dressing wounds for three weeks with the salve reduced acute injuries and accelerated healing — results that the team says ...

Can 3D printing help heal a wound? Doctors might one day use this tool to repair damaged tissues. This bioprinter deposits a material that can support living cells. Bursts of light cure the gel as ...

In more than 20 years of field research, Rakus is the first orangutan to be observed using a medicinal plant to treat wounds. Armas / Suaq Project via Max Planck Institute ...