Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers in America, with more than 6 million people treated each year. Of all the states, Utah has the highest rate of new cases of melanoma, the deadliest form ...

Fat grafting procedures - transferring the patient's own fat cells from one part of the body to another - have become widely used in many cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery procedures. In ...

Burn, trauma, and plastic surgery patients and others needing skin autografts often have limited quantities of healthy tissue from which to take skin biopsies, and when skin grafts are transplanted, ...

A newly approved medicinal cream made from pineapples could be a "game-changer" for burn patients, doctors say. At Stony Brook Medicine’s burn center in New York, doctors recently started using ...

Skin grafting is an essential procedure used to treat severe skin wounds. In the case of extensive wounds, however, it can be challenging to harvest enough donor skin, and generating artificial skin ...

In a first-of-its-kind treatment, doctors replaced 80 percent of a boy's skin. Doctors lift up a sheet of modified skin cells in the lab at St. Josef Hospital in Bochum, Germany, where experimental ...