Although the news has been awash with vaccine updates as of late, there’s another medical technology worth a brief discussion: beet juice. Iowa high schooler Dasia Taylor used the vegetable juice to ...

In an effort to help make world health outcomes more equitable, an Iowa high school student has developed organic, color-changing sutures that warn of infection as soon as it appears. High school ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A teen in Iowa won $25,000 at the Regeneron Science Talent Search for her invention of sutures that change colors to warn of possible infections. A senior at Iowa City West High ...

IOWA CITY - Iowa City West High School student Dasia Taylor is creating surgical sutures that change color to let patients know if a wound is infected. After a year of research, the 17-year-old is ...

A university researcher has developed a smart suture that detects and responds to signs of infection, helping wounds heal more quickly. As described in this month's issue of the scientific journal ...

Surgery can pose a range of complications that must be closely monitored, though one of the more common complications includes infections, particularly those that occur at the surgical site. These ...

(Nanowerk News) Loading nanofiber sutures with vitamin D induces the production of an infection-fighting peptide, new research shows (Future Medicine, "Nanofiber-based sutures induce endogenous ...

The evidence base for Plus Sutures is large, of relatively high quality and is likely to be generalisable to the NHS. Some of the individual studies did not show a significant reduction in surgical ...

If you’ve ever had surgery, you know firsthand how important it is to keep the wound from getting infected. There are special conductive sutures that sense changes in wound status via electrical ...