Drug combo heals wounds fast with less scarring
Vanessa McMains-Johns Hopkins
Doctors have stumbled onto a potential new use for two approved medications. When used in combination, they heal wounds more quickly with less scar tissue.
In mice and rats, injecting the two drugs in combination speeds the healing of surgical wounds by about one-quarter and significantly decreases scar tissue.
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If the findings, published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, hold up in future human studies, the treatment might also speed skin healing in people with skin ulcers,.