A woman from India has shared how a routine cleaning of an infected wound on her leg resulted in a shocking discovery. The bullet had been lodged in Kavita's leg for 20 years. She had been suffering ...

Maggot therapy is a wound healing technique in which healthcare professionals apply medical grade maggots to dead or infected tissue to keep the wound clean. It is also known as larval therapy. Maggot ...

The mouse wound infection model demonstrated that wounds infected with E. faecalis had dampened immunity, allowing the bacteria to persist and even enabling co-infecting bacteria like E. coli to ...

Every year, countless minor injuries occur in homes, garages and backyards across the country. The immediate instinct for many is to reach for a familiar brown bottle of hydrogen peroxide or a swab of ...

In a recent Nature Reviews Microbiology study, researchers review how the wound microbiota interferes with skin repair processes and facilitates infection onset by modulating host immune responses.

Kavita, who is from Faridabad, India, was cleaning an infected wound on her leg when she discovered the bullet on Sunday, Jan. 4 Gabrielle Rockson is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in ...