New technologies to treat diabetic wounds

Revolutionary approach: Moulds being used to produce sponge-like microneedles which can be used in the sustained delivery of medicine to help diabetic wounds to heal. — The Straits Times/ANN/NUS

Each day, about four people face having their lower limbs amputated because of non-healing diabetic wounds in Singapore, where some 400,000 people live with the disease.

To tackle this problem, researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed two technologies which have shown to be effective in accelerating diabetic wound healing, thus reducing the risk of amputation.