For example, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia found that people with xylazine-associated wounds are often denied admittance to detox and rehabilitation programs until their ...

With non-healing wounds costing the US healthcare system over $50 billion annually, this suggests that managing biofilm-infected wounds accounts for at least $40 million per year of this ...

Infection and inflammation: All sorts of bacteria proliferate on the dead tissue that accumulates in these wounds, forming what we call a biofilm. Bacterial biofilms embed in and around the ...