A team of engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles, working with a colleague from K Medical LLC, has developed a pressurized mattress that reduces the likelihood of developing bed sores ...

Research led by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine along with scientists at the Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin in Berlin, Germany, provides first evidence that ...

Why: Pressure ulcers are serious problems that occur frequently in hospitalized, community-dwelling and nursing home older adults, accounting for 3-11% in acute facilities, and 24% in long-term ...

MILTON, MA - Discovering that a loved one has developed bedsores in a Massachusetts nursing home is alarming, and in ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded East Lansing medical startup Sit Sense $1.55 million to support the development ...

“It’s old surgical wisdom that patients who have infections will often develop wound healing problems after surgery. While typical infections in spinal cord injury patients evolve in the lung or the ...