The Leg Ulcer Charity has partnered with the mobile healthcare solution enterprise, Medopad, to create a new app for patients suffering with leg ulcers, and their carers, across the UK. The app, which ...

Venous leg ulcers are common and distressing, affecting around 1 in 300 adults in the UK. They are open, often painful, sores on the leg that take months to heal and can develop after a minor injury.

In the new updated draft guideline: ‘Leg ulcer infection: antimicrobial prescribing’ from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) a strategy for antimicrobial prescribing in ...

The medical technologies advisory committee considered evidence on compression products for treating venous leg ulcers. Evidence was considered from several sources to determine whether price ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Complete debridement was achieved by 63% of patients treated with EscharEx vs. 30.2% and 13.3% of comparison ...

Aspirin Tablets Low-dose aspirin does not decrease healing time for patients with venous leg ulcers. Low-dose aspirin, taken up to 24 weeks, does not facilitate healing or restoration rate or improve ...

A leg ulcer can be understood as a break in the skin, typically located on the feet or the lower part of the leg. Leg ulcers are generally diagnosed based on their appearance, though this can be ...

In normal conditions, contraction of lower extremity muscles and working intraluminal valves promote the forward flow of blood within veins. In venous insufficiency, reflux and/or obstruction in the ...

The multicentre, double-blind, international randomised controlled trial EXPLORER (n=240; 20‑week follow-up) compared UrgoStart with UrgoTul, a non-interactive dressing (Edmonds et al. 2018). The ...

Venous ulcers are the most common type of leg ulcers, but that doesn't make them any less troubling. Most often found just above the ankle, these non-healing skin wounds can take on many shapes and ...

Robert Kirsner, MD, PhD, to Present Results at American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthpoint Biotherapeutics today announced positive ...

According to NICE there are many causes of leg ulcers. Antibiotics do not help to promote healing when a leg ulcer is not clinically infected, and should only be offered for adults with a leg ulcer ...