An Osceola couple is facing felony charges after investigators say they failed to get medical treatment for a child suffering ...

Robinson and Morgan both allegedly knew that their son had sores on his body for more than a year, but never took the boy to ...

Detectives from the St. Clair County Sheriff's Office received a tip on a potential case of physical or sexual abuse of a ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2013;11(5):499-509. Limiting unnecessary, empiric, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy is universally thought to be an effective tool for reducing HAIs and limiting ...

A serious staph infection that doesn‘t respond to antibiotic treatment can develop from any wound, including a spider bite. It is also possible to mistake MRSA infections for a spider bite at first.

A group of five medical organizations have released updated recommendations for the prevention of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, transmission and infection. MRSA causes ...

The idea that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) abscesses don’t always require antibiotics (Item 122-5) may have been accepted in 1950, but it is not true anymore. All clinicians know ...

Severe skin infections are increasing among children and becoming one of the most common reasons for hospitalization, a new study finds. In 2009, about 71,900 children spent time in the hospital ...

Endocarditis can be a life threatening complication of MRSA in which the infection causes inflammation in the lining of the heart, and its valves and chambers. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ...

Bedbugs could be a culprit in spreading methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, which can be common in some assisted living and nursing home communities. A study in The Journal ...