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Impact of Final Physician Fee Schedule on US Skin Substitutes in 2026

Wound GM Kris Flinn and Senior Analysts Elizabeth Anderson and Jay Merkel discuss the impact of the final physician fee schedule on US Skin Substitutes in 2026. SmartTRAK Wound GM Kris Flinn and Senior Analysts Elizabeth Anderson and Jay Merkel discuss the Centers for...

Scientists discover how hair cells can help heal skin faster

Rockefeller scientists uncovered how hair follicle stem cells can switch from growing hair to repairing skin when nutrients run low. The key lies in serine, an amino acid that activates a stress signal telling cells to conserve energy. When both injury and low serine...

Scientists shocked to find E. coli spreads as fast as the swine flu

Researchers have, for the first time, estimated how quickly E. coli bacteria can spread between people — and one strain moves as fast as swine flu. Using genomic data from the UK and Norway, scientists modeled bacterial transmission rates and discovered key...

One of Your Letters: UPIC Denies Everything Without Reading the Chart

 Hi Caroline, I just read the great article by Mike Crouch on the UPIC audits around skin substitutes. We’re looking at a UPIC denial for a patient we successfully grafted last year. They claim we had no weekly measurements! Absurd!! They said we don’t measure wounds...