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The article provides information on reducing the physical and psychological impact of scars. It is estimated that more than 30% of the Great Britain population has a scar or scars resulting from major or minor trauma, burns, surgery or illness. Steroid injections into the scar tissue may help to flatten and soften a keloid or hypertrophic scar with minimal side-effects. Interferon therapy has been reported to reduce keloid scarring but can have significant side-effects.

Presents information on scars. Number of adults and children in Great Britain with significant facial or bodily disfigurements, according to the charity Changing Faces; Methods to repair and heal wounds; Treatments of scarring, including steroid injections.

This section offers news briefs related to public health and medicine in Great Britain as of September 2010, which include the publication of an updated guidance on the care of patients with chronic leg ulcers by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, a report on the economic impact of the failure of the National Health Service (NHS) to provide cost-effective surgical treatment for morbid obesity, and the launch of three-digit non-emergency number pilot in the North East of England.