A cut on a fingertip is small, but it is rarely quiet. The pad of the finger flexes dozens of times an hour, meets water every time you wash your hands, and absorbs the full force of every grip. That is why a bandage for fingertips fails more often than almost any other dressing: not because the in...

Skin is the body's most exposed organ and its first line of defence. Every cut, burn, surgical incision or pressure ulcer starts a race between repair and infection, and the tools available to win that race have changed faster in the past fifteen years than in the previous fifty. Advances in skin w...