infection

Only if you eat about ten thousand of them! Yucky, yuck, yuck! I can't tell you how many people have asked me this strange question throughout my 18 ... Read More »

Brooklyn, New York medical authorities are probing the death of a 12 year-old after the cause of death was pegged as due to a staph infection. As a ... Read More »

Pneumonia is a serious ailment, and any vaccine that helps prevent it in children and the elderly is generally a good thing for advanced medicine. ... Read More »

Can a computer game help health experts better plan for the next epidemic? It can, and it is. It started when a computerized illness that started as ... Read More »

As far as minor inflictions of the body go, I find few things more annoying that canker sores (itchy mosquito bites are probably the only thing that I ... Read More »

Do you know the health risks associated with getting a tattoo? According to the FDA--and a recent article on MSN Health and Fitness--one in four ... Read More »

Contact lens wearers, heads up: the CDC has issued a warning about AMO Complete Moisture Plus Multi-Purpose Solution, which is used for cleaning and ... Read More »

Although pleurisy is most commonly caused by viral infections, other underlying diseases can cause it such as pneumonia and tuberculosis, and other ... Read More »

MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections, a form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, used to be really only found in hospitals in ... Read More »

This story scares me a little: there really wasn't anything obviously done wrong in a dentist's office here in the U.S. when a rare case of ... Read More »