Valley emergency medical experts are warning about the dangers of working around a hot stove this Thanksgiving. If you ...

Serious burn victims are immunocompromised and may be missing skin on parts of their body, and this makes them highly vulnerable to bacteria. Thanks to progress in intensive care, they are ...

Plenty of people in the Capital Region are celebrating the holiday in their own backyards. But before you fire up the grill, there are a few burn safety tips to keep in mind. Make sure you’re being ...

The IIT's bandage is made from a new biodegradable material developed by the team, consisting of zein, a protein obtained from maize; pectin, a sugar found in the peel of many fruits, like for example ...

British scientists have developed “living bandages,” made from a patient’s own cells, which speed healing for burns and diabetes sufferers. The biological bandages, launched at the British Burns ...

Dear Doctors: I burned myself on the stove, but it didn’t look bad so I wasn’t worried. The next morning, the skin had turned red and the burn was all swollen. What’s the right way to take care of a ...

Temple bioengineer Jonathan Arye Gerstenhaber applies liquid to a small piece of OmegaSkin, which is made from soy, for the bandage material to adhere to the skin. At a laboratory benchtop surrounded ...