Burns

Dissolving wound dressing could vastly improve treatment for burns victims

By Jeff Salton

22:15 November 23, 2009 PST

In today’s environment of advanced medical treatments where high success rates are achieved in amazingly delicate operations that until recently weren’t thought possible, a staggering 70 percent of people with severe burns still die from related infections. It is hoped that a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at Tel Aviv University (TAU) could cut that number dramatically. Read More