He's a man known for sharing his opinion. WAVE 3 viewers hear his views each week in the station's Hot Button Editorials. But WAVE 3 General Manager, Steve Langford is passionate about more than ...

Then I get up and go about my day. The workouts are challenging on my body, for sure. Their real value is when they get into my head. They help me build my scar tissue.

Preventing scar tissue build-up. In her most recent research, which was a collaboration between University of Galway and MIT and was published in Nature Communications, ...

Implantable devices like pacemakers have been used regularly for decades, but they often encounter a build-up of scar tissue, or fibrotic tissue around the implants that can hinder functionality.

The research showed that changing the force and number of times the device was compelled to move or change shape allowed the device to release more drug, helping to bypass scar tissue build-up.

When the body’s immune system prompts the development of scar tissue around implanted devices, they don’t work as effectively as they should, putting patients at risk. To overcome this problem, ...

Still, one of four patients can build up some scar tissue on the implant lens. It is the body's way of saying, 'What’s this object doing in my eye?' And nature's way of healing it.

Explained another way, a heart attack can cause scar tissue build up—myocardial fibrosis—but the fibrotic region lacks the contractile activity of healthy heart tissue.