by Frontiers Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainIt’s notoriously difficult for doctors to identify a wound that is becoming infected. Clinical signs and symptoms are imprecise and methods of identifying bacteria can be time-consuming and inaccessible, so a diagnosis can be subjective and dependent on clinician experience. But infection can stall healing or spread into the body...
By Ben Coxworth April 19, 2023 PhD students Elisa Zattarin and Olof Eskilsson work with the color-changing dressingOlof Planthaber It’s ironic that in order to check if a wound is becoming infected, doctors may end up setting back the healing process by prematurely removing the dressing. An experimental new dressing is designed to help, as...
If the bandage glows under UV light, it means that an infection is presentRMIT UniversityVIEW 3 IMAGES Bandaged wounds need to be checked for infection, yet removing the bandage to check the wound can delay its healing. Australian scientists may have a fix for this paradox, in the form of a dressing that glows if...
by Michael Morrison, Massachusetts General Hospital Investigators led by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have made discoveries at the single cell level to uncover new details concerning mitochondrial diseases—inherited disorders that interfere with energy production in the body and currently have no cure. The findings, which are published in the New England Journal...
Smoking habits trump asthma, obesity in risk factors for otherwise healthy population UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO As the number of young adults infected with the coronavirus surges throughout the nation, a new study by researchers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals indicates that youth may not shield people from serious disease. The study looked...
By SHARON BEGLEY @sxbegleJULY 2, 2020 Workplaces do it. Newly reopened public libraries do it. LAX does it. Some restaurants, bars, and retail stores started doing it when governors let them serve customers again: Use temperature checks — almost always with “non-contact infrared thermometers” — to identify people who might have, and therefore spread, the...
By MARY KEKATOS SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM A French study found that only 4.4% of 350 coronavirus patients hospitalized were regular smokers and 5.3% of 130 homebound patients smoked This pales in comparison with at least 25% of the French population that smokes Researchers theorized nicotine could prevent the virus from infecting cells or...
Infections in surgical wounds make up an estimated two per cent of all hospital expenses in Denmark. This corresponds to expenses of more than EUR 135 million (DKK 1 billion) per year. A new patch that automatically warns of infection may be one of several ways to reduce costs. A special sensor in the patient’s dressings notifies healthcare professionals if a...
