An ambulance service has changed its call procedures after the death of a woman in her 80s who called 111 and said she was ...

Shares in ConvaTec opened up 3.2% at 255.40 pence in London on Monday. On Friday, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services postponed Local Coverage Determinations for skin substitute ...

Calvin Campbell lost all the flesh on his legs and was paralysed for months because of an agonising disease that's the ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Friday postponed so-called local coverage determinations (LCDs) for certain products used to treat diabetic foot ulcers and venous leg ulcers, meaning ...

Sickle cell disease, characterised by the abnormal sickle shape of red blood cells instead of the typical round form, is the UK's most rapidly expanding genetic disorder. This deformation causes ...

Lynn Hunt, from Oxfordshire, England, told Newsweek: "I'm not a worrier, so the thought that the ulcer could be something sinister never crossed my mind." ...

A woman living in her ex-partner's car has been spared jail after a Leicestershire court heard that the kitchen knife she had on her was for cutting up food. Natasha Chamberlain had been a long-term ...

Lucy Notarantonio is Newsweek's Senior Lifestyle and Trends Reporter, based in Birmingham, UK. Her focus is trending ... and turned into an ulcer that wouldn't go away. Still, I didn't think ...

As a result, ConvaTec, the London-based medical products and technologies company said it now expects sales of wound dressing treatment InnovaMatrix of around USD75 million in financial 2025, up from ...

Designed as a one-off procedure, it will be administered to about 50 UK residents annually ... the agonising effects of severe sickle cell leg ulcers. The condition was so debilitating that ...

The advanced wound care market was valued at $9,255.70 million in 2019, and is estimated to reach at $15,305.94 million by 2027, registering a CAGR of 11.6% from 2020 to 2027. Significant increase in ...

And symptoms include sensations of heaviness, aching, throbbing, and itching; restlessness in the legs; fluid retention and swelling; muscle cramps; and leg ulcers in severe cases. Previously ...