Care for critically ill patients with severe burns has shifted in recent years from a model centered largely on survival to one that also emphasizes functional recovery and quality of life as key ...

A new analysis in Oregon reveals a heightened incidence of severe burns requiring hospital-level care as illicit drug use nationwide has shifted from injection to smoking. Researchers analyzed Oregon ...

If you or someone you care about has sustained severe electrical burns, don't delay getting immediate medical care, as they can cause extensive, even life-threatening damage to many parts of the body.

Each year, approximately 2,423 Australians are admitted to hospital with burn-related injuries, 74% of whom require surgery, including a skin graft. Globally, 180,000 people die from burns each year, ...

Twenty-five years later, three survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, Pentagon attack returned to the Burn Center at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where they received lifesaving care and began their ...

Diabetes patients, among others, suffer from chronic wounds that do not heal, which sometimes end in limb amputations. An Israeli drug intends to change the situation.

Certain he was about to die, an Army officer received morphine through the only part of his body the flames hadn't reached.