Dissolvable Sutures That Also Treat Brain Infections
Monday, August 12, 2013 - 13:20
in Health & Medicine
A plastic material already used in absorbable surgical sutures could also administer antibiotics to patients with brain infections, scientists report in a new study. Use of the material, placed directly on the brain's surface, could reduce the need for weeks of costly hospital stays now required for such treatment, they say in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience. read more