There are a couple of reasons that scar tissue looks different than regular skin – it lacks hair follicles, and it has no fat cells. Recently, though, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

A few years ago, when my daughter and I were looking at college websites, we began to track the buzzwords that admissions offices use to highlight the qualities they most value: “High achievement.” ...

Many patients seek out their local Emergency Department across the country on a daily basis for management of open wounds that usually include primary closure with either sutures or staples. Open ...

Ernesto Moreno, a city-zoning inspector, worked inside Building Two at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center. It was the same building a disgruntled employee shot and killed 12 of his colleagues. He had ...

In work that could be a massive breakthrough in dermatology, researchers have developed a way to coax wounds into regenerating skin instead of scarring. Something previously thought to be impossible ...

About 1 million veterans have painful scars that qualify them for disability benefits. A change in the rule could make those ...

I had a philosophy professor my freshman year of college who made a comment that to an 18-year-old seemed odd—but that makes perfect sense to the now 62-year-old man I became. He said he was ...

Researchers have discovered a rare example in which the mammalian body functions better in old age. A team has found that, in skin wounds in mice, being older increased tissue regeneration and ...

At the end of the day, radiofrequency microneedling can deliver genuine and skin-smoothing benefits. And as someone who had ...

The 2025-2029 San Antonio City Council will include five new members: Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones, Edward Mungia (D4), Ric Galvan (D6), Ivalis Meza Gonzalez (D8), and Misty Spears (D9). Mungia has already ...