Surgery is usually the main treatment for basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma as well as most types of melanoma. Other times, surgery is used together with other treatment types.

For the past 15 years, a Lafayette company has built a national wound-care business out of an often-discarded byproduct of childbirth to help solve a nagging health care challenge affecting millions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists engineer living skin that glows in response to inflammation, offering a new way to monitor health from within. (CREDIT: ...

Researchers in Japan are exploring a future where the body itself becomes a health monitor, no screens or batteries required. A joint team from Tokyo City University and the University of Tokyo, ...

Bio-engineered skin grafts can play an important role in the treatment of burn victims. Researchers at the University of Zurich have been working on new approaches for such grafts for over 15 years.

The graft was integrated into the natural host skin of lab mice, beneath which inflammation was subsequently induced. Not only did the engineered skin respond by fluorescing green, but it proceeded to ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A woman who was attacked with acid at a popular Savannah park has underwent her first skin-grant surgery, ABC affiliate WJCL in Savannah reported. Ashley Wasieleski, 46, underwent her ...

It's *** long, difficult road to recover from *** burn injury like this. For acid attack survivors like Ashley Waslewski, care often requires multiple surgeries over weeks, even years, says burn ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin disclosed that he had skin cancer removed from his face, using his personal experience as an opportunity to urge people to wear sunscreen ...

Harriet Trewhitt said her story makes a "good dating anecdote" after she was diagnosed with tongue cancer earlier this year Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

• VCHRI researchers have developed a breakthrough implantable Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (FTT-NIRS) sensor that provides real-time monitoring of blood flow and oxygenation in transplanted tissue flaps ...