A Bandage That Makes Its Own Gas Could Help Stubborn Wounds Heal
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A blister on the heel. A small cut that catches on a sock. For most of us these are nothing, gone in a week and forgotten. For someone with diabetes, the same small breach in the skin can sit open for months, refuse to close, turn septic, and end in an amputation. The grim arithmetic is well documented: roughly four in ten of these foot ulcers come back within a year, and the five-year mortality for people with diabetic foot complications is worse than for most cancers, beaten only by lung cance
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