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

For those of us living with acne scars, surgery scars, stretch marks, or other permanent marks left by long-ago wounds, it can sometimes feel disheartening when, after slathering on countless serums ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical research published today in the journal Science, an achievement of the ...

Disruptions during wound healing phases (inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling) can result in scar formation. Higher levels of inflammatory markers (TGF-β1, TGF- β2, VEGF) and type 1 collagen ...

Pope Francis awoke Thursday after a good first night in the hospital following a three-hour operation to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, problems that ...