The face is privileged when it comes to scarring after injury. A Stanford Medicine study in mice not only discovers why but ...

Rope-like bands of internal scar tissue that form in 70-90% of patients who undergo abdominal surgery have bedeviled patients and surgeons since medical literature history's recording of adhesions in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By NICOLE WINFIELD, TRISHA THOMAS and MARIA CHENG (Associated Press) ROME (AP) — Pope Francis underwent successful surgery Wednesday to remove intestinal ...

New research discovers a potential path to prevent permanent scarring and heart failure following a myocardial infarction. A new study by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers developed an algorithm that identified correlations between scar architecture and survival. Future ...

Scar revision is a broad term that’s used to describe techniques that minimize or improve the appearance of scars. Simply put, scars are growths of fibrous tissue that form as part of your body’s ...

When a scar develops from surgery, injury, or infection, the surrounding tissue transforms. While scar formation has been extensively studied, less is understood about the impact of a new scar in the ...

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Scarring of heart tissue can be slowed but not stopped, and can lead to heart failure. But a new study has shown that an existing immunotherapy could stop scar tissue formation after heart attacks.