by Queen’s University Belfast Credit: Drug Delivery and Translational Research (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s13346-022-01115-8 Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have designed a new bandage treatment, known as a scaffold, to treat diabetic foot ulcers, which is cost-effective while improving patient outcomes. Produced by 3D bioprinting, the scaffolds slowly release antibiotics over a four-week period to effectively treat the...
by University of Southampton Credit: University of Southampton Innovative in-sole sensors will alert diabetic patients during excessive or extended activities that could trigger foot ulcers in a new system being developed at the University of Southampton. The LOad Monitoring and Intervention System (LOMIS) processes real-time data from three directional force sensors and detects physical activities over...
FEBRUARY 18TH, 2021 CONN HASTINGS EXCLUSIVE, MEDICINE, SURGERY, VASCULAR SURGERY MiMedx, a medtech company based in Georgia, has developed EpiFix, an off-the-shelf allograft system for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers. The grafts are made using donated human placental tissues that are obtained from consenting mothers during caesarean section procedures. The tissues then undergo a proprietary processing...
By ROGER DOBSON FOR THE DAILY MAIL A gel made from blood could rapidly speed up the healing of chronic wounds. Problem foot ulcers treated with the gel, made from the patient’s own blood, are more likely to heal than those treated traditionally, according to a new study. Many of the 2.2 million wounds treated by...
