We inherit more than eye color, hair texture, or family recipes from our ancestors. Sometimes, we also inherit pain. Experts ...

Q: Thank you so very much for posting about sugar to heal open wounds. Every winter, I get deep fissures in my fingertips from cold, dry air. Not only are they extremely painful, but I also cannot ...

A wearable device called “a-Heal,” designed by engineers at UC Santa Cruz, aims to optimize each stage of wound healing the ...

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Dressings that simply cover wounds may soon seem archaic. An experimental new device reportedly speeds healing by 25%, and ...

Co-authored by Sofya Yedigarian, Ph.D., and Amy Vigliotti, Ph.D. Have you ever felt like something from your past still haunts you–sometimes subtly, other times like a tidal wave? Maybe you find ...

When Epsom salt is used in a bath, the skin might be able to absorb the magnesium and sulfate ions that are dissolved in the water. Magnesium is an essential mineral responsible for many biological ...

Time is often described as the great healer, a universal balm that soothes all wounds. The phrase "Time heals all wounds" is frequently used to comfort those in pain, promising that as days, months, ...

Skin grafts genetically engineered from a patient's own cells can heal persistent wounds in people with an extremely painful dermatologic disease, a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial has shown. The ...

We naked apes need Band-Aids, but shedding the fur that speeds healing in other mammals may have helped us evolve other abilities. By Elizabeth Preston Watching wild baboons in Kenya, Akiko ...

Skin grafts genetically engineered from a patient's own cells can heal persistent wounds in people with an extremely painful dermatologic disease, a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial has shown. The ...