Wash your hands. Scrub your hands for 20 seconds with soap then rinse with water. Use a hand sanitizer with at least 60% ...

It’s an unfortunate fact of life: Cuts happen to good people. But, under most circumstances, you can clean it, slap a bandage on your wound, and move on with your life. Sometimes, though, things don’t ...

Hydrogen peroxide might be the first thing you grab when treating a wound in order to help disinfect it. While the sometimes-painful bubbling is definitely sanitizing the area, it’s also destroying ...

Choice of antibiotic did not affect recovery rate for skin infections, according to a study by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Researchers treated skin infections with one of two antibiotics: ...

Kavita, 32, was cleaning an infected wound on her right thigh when she made the discovery She told the Hindustan Times she remembered she had an injury in the same place when she was just 12 years old ...

Maggot therapy is a wound healing technique in which healthcare professionals apply medical grade maggots to dead or infected tissue to keep the wound clean. It is also known as larval therapy. Maggot ...