The symptoms can occur months or even years after the surgery. Credit...Getty Images Supported by By Melinda Wenner Moyer Q: I had a C-section about a year ago, but my scar still sometimes hurts, ...

Scarring, whether caused by acne, surgery or another wound-inducing experience, is almost as inevitable as it is permanent. If your scars create textural changes to your skin, it is unlikely that an ...

Over time, scar tissue slows or stops implanted bioelectronics. But new interdisciplinary research could help pacemakers, sensors and other implantable devices keep people healthier for longer. In a ...

Doctors in the U.S. perform nearly 800,000 total knee replacements every year, but some estimates indicate that up to 10% of patients may emerge from surgery with a new problem: arthrofibrosis, or ...

When an injury causes damage to the skin, a scar arises as part of the body’s healing process to recover any lost skin from this traumatic event. Infections, surgery, injuries, or inflammation of the ...

New research discovers a potential path to prevent permanent scarring and heart failure following a myocardial infarction. A new study by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a ...

Researchers have found that hair follicle transplants can promote scar rejuvenation by altering their architecture and genetic makeup. In a new study involving three volunteers, skin scars began to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers developed an algorithm that identified correlations between scar architecture and survival. Future ...

When a scar develops from surgery, injury, or infection, the surrounding tissue transforms. While scar formation has been extensively studied, less is understood about the impact of a new scar in the ...

A team of researchers from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) has taken a step forward in understanding the complex structure of heart scars that form after a myocardial infarction.