New research suggests a spray-on treatment may speed up the healing process of leg ulcers. While it may be years before the treatment is approved in the United States, this is still promising news to those who suffer from stubborn wounds.
“Current treatments are not able to heal everyone,” said Dr. Herbert Slade, chief medical officer of Healthpoint Therapeutics, which funded a study into the treatment. “In the area of chronic wound care, our study stands out as being well-designed, well- conducted, sufficiently large to be meaningful and, best of all, the treatment shows very good efficacy thus far.”
According to Slade, the new treatment is designed to “provide help and instructions to cells within the wound, so you end up healing yourself.” If the findings are confirmed by follow- up studies, “it’s going to be an off-the-shelf product.” The estimated cost of the treatment is undetermined.
