If you’re experiencing a medical emergency, you need to go to a doctor, but there are items in your junk drawer that could help you on the way to the emergency room. Dr. Natalie Azar shares how ...

Here's a great (albeit a bit complex) example of how organic chemistry can improve medical applications. If you dare to read this, you'll see some clever chemistry that was used to improve the ...

In one episode of the TV show "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Captain Jean-Luc Picard is stabbed in the chest but survives thanks to a device that stitches up wounds in his heart. Now, real ...

A squirtable super glue that seals wounds in seconds could transform medical treatment in emergency situations like war zones, and enhance healing after surgery. The rest of this article is behind a ...

Stitches are the worst. They pop open. They leak. They can get infected, and even hurt sometimes. Doctors want to replace stitches for good, but the requirements for a new medical adhesive are steep.

Hot-glue guns can be used for more than putting together cardboard furniture, home decorations and toys. Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Boston Children’s Hospital have ...

Cuts, scrapes, blisters, burns, splinters, and punctures - there are a number of ways our skin can be broken. Most treatments for skin wounds involve simply placing a barrier over it (usually an ...

Uncontrolled bleeding during surgery can cause death. What if, instead of slow surgical stitching, you could rapidly glue a wound together? A new “bio-glue” – an experimental adhesive gel that is ...

Australian and American biomedical engineers have developed a stretchy surgical glue that rapidly heals wounds, a “breakthrough” that has the potential to save lives in emergencies, its designers say.