Some phrases are commonly used and are only sometimes valid when said. For those of us in the Pacific Northwest, an example could be using the term “It’s freezing out.” This phrase is often used when ...

Doctors in the U.S. perform nearly 800,000 total knee replacements every year, but some estimates indicate that up to 10% of patients may emerge from surgery with a new problem: arthrofibrosis, or ...

When a person has an injury, the body responds by repairing the damaged tissue, which creates scar tissue. There are numerous treatments that can help to reduce the appearance of scarring. A keloid is ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona have uncovered a previously unknown population of circulating immune cells that play ...

Dr. Jay Deimel is the state's first surgeon to perform a minimally invasive version of the two-stage procedure.

Getting a hair transplant on scar tissue is possible. But a hair transplant on a scar is done differently from a typical hair transplant, because the skin and tissues of a scar are different from ...

ANAHEIM — Describing it as a “huge relief,” Mike Trout said the latest setback in his recovery is a minor one. The Angels embattled star underwent an MRI on his left knee that he said came back clean, ...

Heart disease is the biggest killer in the Western world. A part of the problem is that even if one survives a heart attack, damage to the heart muscle results in the formation of thick scar tissue ...

Baltimore Ravens running back J.K. Dobbins is going back on the shelf. Dobbins is undergoing knee surgery to remove scar tissue from his previous ACL surgery, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported ...