Grafts will replace swaths of skin lost to flesh-eating disease. June 15, 2012— -- Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student recovering from flesh-eating disease, is having surgery to replace swaths of ...

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 ...

Kellen Chen receives funding from the Plastic Surgery Foundation Translational Grant Award and C-DOCTOR (supported by the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research and National Institutes ...

Harriet Trewhitt said her story makes a "good dating anecdote" after she was diagnosed with tongue cancer earlier this year ...

The woman’s burns are severe, essentially eradicating the skin from more than half of her body. Every layer of this complex tissue must therefore be replaced with grafts. These need to be harvested ...

Reducing a skin graft’s responsiveness to its physical environment could help improve healing and reduce scarring from large injuries like burns or blast wounds, according to our recent study ...

Skin from cod and tilapia is being used to treat burns and other skin damage. Icelandic biotechnology company Kerecis has developed an FDA-approved cod-skin treatment that can speed up burn healing ...

A North Yorkshire woman’s arm tattoo is now on her tongue – after a skin graft for cancer treatment. Harriet Trewhitt, 21, ...

A student’s arm tattoo is now on her tongue – after a skin graft for cancer treatment. Harriet Trewhitt, 21, was diagnosed ...

NEW YORK, NY--If you’ve ever tried giftwrapping an odd-shaped present like a teddy bear, you can appreciate the challenge that surgeons face when grafting artificial skin onto an injured body part.

Tami Chmielewski, of Gilbert, Ariz., remains in serious condition in a burn unit of a Minnesota hospital A single mom of four will receive skin grafts Thursday after suffering third-degree burns over ...