As chronic conditions like diabetes and vascular diseases become more common, the demand for nurses specializing in wound care has increased significantly. Wound care nursing offers a unique blend of ...

Slow-to-heal wounds can often become the result of health conditions or even medical treatments. Even with the best efforts of doctors and their patients, the healing process can be slow and ...

Depending on how old you are, your idea of how to treat a wound is probably dependent on what your parents taught you. If you are still reaching for the mercurochrome for every scratch you’re probably ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — When nurse Patsy Martinsek cares for a patient with a wound in a hard-to-reach spot on the back of his or her leg, she has to be creative. Sometimes she uses a pillow and blanket to ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Whenever I got a wound while I was young, my mother would take me to the hospital to get stitches. I am now 94. I went to get a wound seen, and the nurse said that it needed to heal ...