Among the millions of people who have surgery each year, up to 3% will end up with infections around their stitches -- but that risk may soon decline. Last month the Food and Drug Administration ...

At the military hospital in Zaporizhzhia, surgeons have been working around the clock to tend those wounded in the war - Copyright POOL/AFP Anthony Kwan At the ...

Although the news has been awash with vaccine updates as of late, there’s another medical technology worth a brief discussion: beet juice. Iowa high schooler Dasia Taylor used the vegetable juice to ...

Surgery can pose a range of complications that must be closely monitored, though one of the more common complications includes infections, particularly those that occur at the surgical site. These ...

In an effort to help make world health outcomes more equitable, an Iowa high school student has developed organic, color-changing sutures that warn of infection as soon as it appears. High school ...

A university researcher has developed a smart suture that detects and responds to signs of infection, helping wounds heal more quickly. As described in this month's issue of the scientific journal ...

Children born with hydrocephalus, or “water on the brain,” must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure. While shunts do their job well, the rate of ...

It is a staple of science fiction to mock sutures as outdated; after all, the technique has been in use for at least 5,000 years. Professor Hossam Haick from the Wolfson Department of Chemical ...

The evidence base for Plus Sutures is large, of relatively high quality and is likely to be generalisable to the NHS. Some of the individual studies did not show a significant reduction in surgical ...

A major clinical trial looking at surgery for women at risk of miscarriage and stillbirth have found that a type of wire commonly used reduces risk of infection. Women at risk of pregnancy loss who ...

If you’ve ever had surgery, you know firsthand how important it is to keep the wound from getting infected. There are special conductive sutures that sense changes in wound status via electrical ...

NICE commissioned an external assessment centre (EAC) to review the evidence submitted by the company. This section summarises that review. Full details of all the evidence are in the project ...