Among the millions of people who have surgery each year, up to 3% will end up with infections around their stitches -- but that risk may soon decline. Last month the Food and Drug Administration ...

At the military hospital in Zaporizhzhia, surgeons have been working around the clock to tend those wounded in the war - Copyright POOL/AFP Anthony Kwan At the ...

Surgery can pose a range of complications that must be closely monitored, though one of the more common complications includes infections, particularly those that occur at the surgical site. These ...

A university researcher has developed a smart suture that detects and responds to signs of infection, helping wounds heal more quickly. As described in this month's issue of the scientific journal ...

In an effort to help make world health outcomes more equitable, an Iowa high school student has developed organic, color-changing sutures that warn of infection as soon as it appears. High school ...

Although the news has been awash with vaccine updates as of late, there’s another medical technology worth a brief discussion: beet juice. Iowa high schooler Dasia Taylor used the vegetable juice to ...

Children born with hydrocephalus, or “water on the brain,” must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure. While shunts do their job well, the rate of ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A teen in Iowa won $25,000 at the Regeneron Science Talent Search for her invention of sutures that change colors to warn of possible infections. A senior at Iowa City West High ...

It is a staple of science fiction to mock sutures as outdated; after all, the technique has been in use for at least 5,000 years. Professor Hossam Haick from the Wolfson Department of Chemical ...

Browne KM, Murphy O, Clover AJP. Should we advise patients with sutures not to swim? BMJ 2014;348:g3171. (23 May.) Katz S, Izhar M, Mirelman D. Bacterial adherence to surgical sutures. A possible ...

If you’ve ever had surgery, you know firsthand how important it is to keep the wound from getting infected. There are special conductive sutures that sense changes in wound status via electrical ...

Although the news has been awash with vaccine updates as of late, there’s another medical technology worth a brief discussion: beet juice. Iowa high schooler Dasia Taylor used the vegetable juice to ...