Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has become a central tool in modern wound care, helping clinicians manage complex wounds, support graft survival, and reduce postoperative infection risk.

A plastic surgeon and burn specialist, Fiona Wood, developed a spray-on skin method to treat burns without scarring.

A 4-year-old burn victim at Massachusetts General Hospital received the first two-layered skin graft in the United States using a new procedure that, if successful, could improve outcomes for ...

Eliana DeVos received a dressing made with fish skin to help her recover from a serious bacterial infection that left an open wound on her neck. CNN’s Jacqueline Howard spoke with Eliana’s mom and her ...

The future of burn and wound care is looking fishy—in a good way. New research suggests that a greater variety of fish skins can be used as wound dressings than currently assumed. Researchers at ...

Coloplast A/S is acquiring Kerecis hf, a closely held Icelandic maker of fish-skin dressings to treat human wounds, for an enterprise value of up to $1.3 billion. Coloplast is making a $1.2 billion ...