News tagged with healing process
A second skin
Despite advances in treatment regimens and the best efforts of nurses and doctors, about 70% of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at ...
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Self-healing autonomous material comes to life
You've seen it in movies: the human-like, robot assassin quickly regenerates its structure after being damaged beyond recognition. This "Terminator" scenario is becoming less far-fetched as recent advances in structural health ...
Dec 07, 2010 |
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Vitamin D deficiency rampant in patients undergoing orthopedic surgery, damaging patient recovery
Almost 50 percent of patients undergoing orthopedic surgery have vitamin D deficiency that should be corrected before surgery to improve patient outcomes, based on a study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) ...
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Scientists discover way to jumpstart bone's healing process
Rarely will physicians use the word "miraculous" when discussing patient recoveries. But that's the very phrase orthopaedic physicians and scientists are using in upstate New York to describe their emerging stem cell research ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Nanotubes that Heal: Engineering Better Orthopedic Implants
(PhysOrg.com) -- Titanium and its alloys have a leg up on all other materials used to make the orthopedic implants used by surgeons to repair damaged bones and joints. They are light, super-strong, and virtually ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 18, 2010 |
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Researchers have a natural sidekick that may resolve the antibiotic-resistant bacteria dilemma
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria continue to be a global concern with devastating repercussions, such as increased healthcare costs, potential spread of infections across continents, and prolonged illness.
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Students Embed Stem Cells in Sutures to Enhance Healing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students have demonstrated a practical way to embed a patient’s own adult stem cells in the surgical thread that doctors use to repair serious orthopedic ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Discovery of an anti-inflammatory substance
The messenger interleukin-27 plays an important role when the human body blocks inflammations. This was discovered by an international research team, of which the Kiel Professors Joachim Grotzinger and Stefan Rose-John, as ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Dolphins' 'remarkable' recovery from injury offers important insights for human healing
A Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) scientist who has previously discovered antimicrobial compounds in the skin of frogs and in the dogfish shark has now turned his attention to the remarkable wound healing abilities ...
Jul 21, 2011 |
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From Illness to Injury, When to Stop Working Out
(PhysOrg.com) -- With all the messages about the importance of regular exercise, few pointers are given on when not to continue with your regimen. But it’s just as important to know when to alter or stop your ...
May 27, 2010 |
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Researchers discover a new pathway that regulates inflammation
Inflammation, the body's earliest response to damage or infection, can aid the healing process and trigger an immune response against invading pathogens. But inflammation gone awry can also undermine health, ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Designed biomaterials mimicking biology: Potential scaffold for muscle regeneration
Engineered artificial proteins that mimic the elastic properties of muscles in living organisms are the subject of an article in Nature magazine to be released May 6.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 05, 2010 |
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Bone replacement from laser melting
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a medical emergency, a puncture of the cranium is commonly treated with an implant. While replacements made of titanium merely plug holes, a new kind of degradable implant stimulates the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 03, 2010 |
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How much can a cell uptake?
Immunological research at the University of Haifa, Israel, has made a new breakthrough, revealing a critical component in the "decision-making" process of white blood cells that play a role in the healing ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Self-healing membranes: Nature shows the way
Lianas whose stabilization rings of woody cells heal spontaneously after suffering damage serve as a natural example to bionic experts of self-repairing membranes. Empa researchers have borrowed this trick ...
Sep 23, 2011 |
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