On modern battlefields and city streets alike, the difference between life and death after a major injury is often measured ...

A team from Texas A&M University has created a novel injectable bandage that blends a commonly used food thickening agent with nanoparticles. The result is an injectable hydrogel than can rapidly stop ...

It used to be so simple. When you fell down, Mom or Dad came to the rescue, washed off your wound and applied hydrogen peroxide or mercurochrome. Then, depending on the extent of your boo-boo, you got ...

For explosion wounds as well as some incurred in disasters and accidents, severe hemorrhage is a leading cause of death. Hydrogel dressings, which have advanced in recent years, may help; they are ...

The powder was created by researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and can heal wounds in around ...

A team of scientists has taken inspiration from seaweed to create a new hydrogel able to stop excessive blood loss. According to scientists from the Inspired Nanomaterials and Tissue Engineering ...

PLEASANT HILL, Iowa - As she learned the basics of applying direct pressure, packing a wound with gauze and tying a tourniquet, sixth-grade math and social studies teacher Kari Stafford shook her head ...

It used to be so simple. You were a kid. You fell down, and skinned your knee. You cried. Mom came to the rescue, washed off your wound and applied hydrogen peroxide or mercurochrome. You cried again.

Harvard bioengineer David Mooney’s lab is developing a bandage that, he hopes, will one day help heal wounds for people whose bodies have lost that ability. Or, he says, it could help close gashes ...

"We did not actually plan this, but that is just how science works sometimes: you start researching one thing and end up somewhere else," says ETH Professor Dimos Poulikakos. Together with scientists ...