Venous leg ulcers are common and distressing, affecting around 1 in 300 adults in the UK. They are open, often painful, sores on the leg that take months to heal and can develop after a minor injury.

A thermal-imaging tool to screen for chronic wounds could enable nurses to identify these hard-to-heal sores during the first assessment at a person's home. Nearly half a million Australians live with ...

Venous leg ulcers are a preventable and treatable condition, yet hundreds of thousands of people continue to suffer ...

In normal conditions, contraction of lower extremity muscles and working intraluminal valves promote the forward flow of blood within veins. In venous insufficiency, reflux and/or obstruction in the ...

Research on venous leg ulcer treatments, doggedly pursued by two University of Manchester academics since 1989, has greatly influenced NICE guidance issued this month. The work by Professors Jo ...

VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On the United Nations’ International Day of Older Persons, AOP Health draws attention to the often-invisible impact that Chronic Venous Ulcer (CVU) wounds have on older people ...

That’s fine until an area of the foot turns into an ulcer or a wound. Once that happens, if they don’t get increased blood flow, there’s not enough oxygen and nutrients and that ulcer becomes worse ...

A 63-year-old man presents to the dermatology clinic with a 3-month history of a nonhealing ulcer on his right lower leg. The patient notes that the ulcer has been getting bigger and is painful ...

Scientists said Friday they had developed a revolutionary "spray-on skin" treatment for venous leg ulcers -- a common ailment involving a shallow, open and stubborn wound on the ankle or lower leg.

Darcy Bean has dealt with nasty sores on his lower right leg for more than a decade. The sores, one of which was the size of a dollar bill, made it impossible for Bean to stand on his feet for long ...

M.P., a 27-year-old man of Italian descent, born in the United States, was first seen on October 21, 1954, at the New York Skin and Cancer Unit with the complaint of persistent ulcerations of the legs ...