The active adhesive dressing (AAD) contracts when it heats up to body temperature, allowing it to accelerate the healing of open wounds on the skin. Wyss Institute at Harvard Univer When you get a ...

When you get a small cut or scrape you probably reach for an ordinary bandage, which is typically nothing more than an adhesive strip holding a tiny patch of sterile padding. It's a simple design that ...

For some time now, scientists have known that electrical currents can help heal chronic wounds. And while there are electrotherapy units that are in use, they can be quite bulky and complex. That's ...

A CDC investigator has linked an outbreak of skin infections to unsanitary practices at a body-wrap salon. The spa, as others do, has customers exercise while tightly swathed in wet elastic bandages.

Hydrogel bandage uses body heat to speed wound healing By Ben Coxworth July 25, 2019 Seen here in multiple colors, the bandage could reportedly be used not just on typical skin wounds, but also on ...

I am about 30 minutes into my SlenderTone Body Wrap, and I want out. Not only am I overheated, I am tired of the teeny-tiny exercises I am doing on a trampoline. I feel like I am going to throw up. I ...