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The medicine cabinet: Ask the Harvard experts: Simple steps to avoid MRSA staph infection

Q: I share office space with a colleague who is being treated for a Staph skin infection. Her doctor put her on a special ...
BIOENGINEER

Rare Dual Abscess Case Shows How Staph Invades the Spine in Critically Ill Elderly Patients

A new case report from BMC Infectious Diseases documents the successful treatment of a 75-year-old septic patient with a rare ...
Infection control

An Ear Infection Turned Fatal: How a Common Illness Progressed to a Deadly Brain Abscess

A Connecticut man's ear infection allegedly progressed to a bone infection and brain abscess, highlighting how routine infections can occasionally become life-threatening when symptoms worsen or ...
Medical Xpress

From urinary tract infection to brain abscess: How bacterial subpopulations can spread to distant body sites

Researchers from the University of Cologne, the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT present a clinical case in the New England Journal of Medicine ...
Healio

Prophylactic oral antibiotics may increase infection risk after aseptic revision THA

Patients who received prophylactic oral antibiotics after aseptic revision total hip arthroplasty had higher rates of ...
Business Insider

A fungus known for killing trees has infected a human for the first time, causing a pus-filled abscess to grow in his throat

It seems like a scene out of "The Last of Us" — a fungus never before seen in humans has just been discovered growing in a person for the first time. A plant researcher in India saw a doctor for a ...
Healthline

Help! My Yeast Infection Won’t Go Away

A persistent yeast infection may require a different treatment. Or it may be another condition, such as bacterial vaginosis. A yeast infection is a common fungal infection that can develop when you ...