A surprising treatment option helped a Texas girl who developed a dangerous wound soon after she was born prematurely.

Krystal DeVos is "grateful for modern medicine" after her newborn was saved by fish skin taken from wild North Atlantic cod ...

What makes that nickname extra special is the surprising way Eliana's life was saved—through the use of fish skin. Eliana was ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — April 9 ... solution that the DeVos family was not expecting to hear: a skin graft made from fish. "It was nothing we had seen before, nothing we had experienced ...

it was the healing power of fish skin that helped her recover from a deep wound on her neck. “Eliana actually has no idea,” said DeVos, who lives in Corpus Christi, Texas. “Of course ...

That’s when doctors at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas ... she was likely the first preemie so small to receive this treatment. Fish skin has been used for wound care ...