How to treat bee and wasp stings
What exactly is a bee sting, and what should you do? Find out how to manage the reaction at home - or when to call for medical help. And where on the body is a sting most painful?
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Study shows effectiveness of mesenchymal stem cell exosomes in healing chronic wounds
Chronic non-healing wounds, common in patients with diabetes and paraplegia, affect over 6.5 million people annually and cost an estimated $25 billion a year in treatment alone in the United States.
Organ transplantation linked to greater risk of aggressive melanoma
New research from Johns Hopkins finds organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of melanoma skin cancer, with many likely to be diagnosed in the advanced stages.
Toxic blue-green algae pose increasing threat to nation’s drinking, recreational water
A report concludes that blooms of toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, are a poorly monitored and underappreciated risk to recreational and drinking water quality in the United States, and may...
New combination treatment effective against melanoma skin metastases
In findings never before seen in melanoma, a novel combination therapy was found to be highly effective at treating patients with skin metastases, new research from UC Davis has shown.
Nanotech wound healing in diabetes
People with diabetes mellitus often suffer from impaired wound healing. Now, scientists in Egypt have developed antibacterial nanofibres of cellulose acetate loaded with silver that could be used...
Scientists identify a mechanism of epidemic bacterial disease
Through identification of increased toxin production by epidemic forms of group A streptococcus (the "flesh-eating" bacterium), for the first time scientists are able to pinpoint the molecular events...
Topical drug leads to complete remission for some patients with rare skin lymphoma
Researchers reveal how a topical drug called resiquimod led to total remission for some patients with a cutaneous T cell lymphoma - a rare skin lymphoma.
Researchers identify drug candidate for skin, hair regeneration in scarred burn and trauma victims
Experiments conducted with mice and human skin cells have implications for treating peopleSkin cells (keratinocytes) treated with an agent which activates TLR3 (dsRNA) can turn on important...
Topical gel proves safe, effective treatment for patients with skin T cell lymphoma
Phase 1 trial first to show topical therapy causes systemic immune response, and may eradicate cancerous cells from treated and untreated lesionsResults of a phase one trial show that an...