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Tissue Technologies Strives to Develop Bandages for Chronic Wounds.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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October 13, 2003
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By Elizabeth Esfahani, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 13--Patients often came to his clinic with toilet paper or rags in their wounds, unable to afford prescribed bandages.
Their crudely swathed sores were not only painful, but lingered for months, and sometimes years, often making their treatments too expensive to maintain.
Ever since he was a child, Dr. Kelman Cohen, professor emeritus of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been fascinated with the body's ability to heal.
"When I was a young guy and said I wanted to study wound healing, people thought I was nuts. They said, ...