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 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The UC Health Burn Center has a new tool to help burn victims. The medical center is the only one in the region with this technology, which allows physicians to have the ability to ...

Patients with severe dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, or EB, have skin so fragile, the slightest touch can lead to blistering and, eventually, large, open wounds that never heal, causing immense pain ...

A single mom of four will receive skin grafts Thursday after suffering third-degree burns over 30 percent of her body from a bonfire while on vacation, her family said. Tami Chmielewski has ...

Pain may not be desirable, but it’s essential for survival. An effective and sophisticated defense mechanism, pain is our body’s way of telling us that something’s wrong and that we should take ...