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Professor Janet Lord wears a black top and grey cardigan as she sits at a desk covered in research equipment. Janet smiles at the camera.

New research offers insight into how laser treatment improves burn scars 

Although laser therapy is widely used to help ease scar symptoms, why and how it reportedly helps wasn't understood

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Four images over a blue sky and cloud background. From right to left: the five-person Hatts skydive team wear blue jumpsuits and stand around a picnic bench, smiling at the camera in the sun. Image 2: the Hatts skydive team prepare to raise money for Scar Free research and stand in a line in their blue jumpsuits in front of a sign that reads SKYDIVE. Image 3: a member of the Hatts skydive team who is skydiving to raise money for the Scar Free Foundation wears a blue jumpsuit and smiles at the camera as a skydive technician prepares his harness in front of a wall covered in orange graffiti. Image 4: the Hatts skydive team line up and smile in their jumpsuits, ready to board their plane and jump.

The Hatt Clinic team skydives for Scar Free research

Five fearless skydivers from Hatt Health & Movement Clinic took to the skies on a sunny Saturday, all in support of Scar Free research

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SafeTea relaunched following rise in hot drink burns among children

New SafeTea campaign to mark National Burns Awareness Day 2025 aims to reinvigorate awareness, prevention, and first aid after worrying data from Children's Burns Trust and the International Burn Injury Database

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Scar Free Royal Patron and Chief Investigator SPARC further support for conflict-related sexual violence survivors

HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh and Professor Iain Whitaker OBE are back at Panzi Hospital to advance work on the SPARC project, supporting survivors of conflict-related sexual violence 📸 Aaron Chown, Chief Royal Photographer at PA

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Marian Adejokun smiles at the camera wearing a green coat, black top, as she stands in front of a cutout of Nelson Mandela

“This Black History Month, let’s celebrate Black excellence in every shade, scar, and story”

We speak to Scar Free Ambassador Marian Adejokun on 2025's Black History Month theme: Standing Firm in Power and Pride

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Professor Sir Simon Wessely at The Scar Free Foundation's inaugural annual lecture on trauma costs.

You’re invited: Professor Simon Wessely to deliver inaugural Scar Free Foundation Annual Lecture

Please join us for Prof Wessley's lecture 'Facing forward and backward: the visible and invisible cost of trauma' on Tuesday 21 October 2025

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