Matthew Mostofi, DO, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and the Associate Chair of Emergency Medicine at Tufts Medical Center. He’s also an assistant professor at Tufts University ...

If you aren’t an experienced quilter or embroider, a sewing machine may not seem worth the investment. But they come in handy even for non-crafty projects, like repairing a ripped seam or hemming a ...

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‌Absorbable sutures, also known as dissolvable stitches, are sutures that can naturally dissolve and be absorbed by the body as a wound heals. Not all wounds are sealed with absorbable sutures.

Knitting may be an ancient manufacturing method, but one researcher believes that understanding how different stitch types determine shape and mechanical strength will be invaluable for designing ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who deliver by cesarean section seem to have similar cosmetic results whether the wound is closed with stitches or staples, a new study suggests. There are a number ...

A skill that’s been taught in schools for more than a century has made its way to the hands of eighth graders at Berner Middle School in the Massapequa School District as they are learning to sew. In ...

Physicist Elisabetta Matsumoto is an avid knitter and has been since taking up the hobby as a child. During graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, Matsumoto came across an ...