Cellulitis may have different symptoms depending on the type of bacteria involved and where on your body it affects. These factors may influence which antibiotics a doctor prescribes to treat ...

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are known as atypical mycobacteria. That means they’re related to tuberculosis, but they don’t cause the same disease. In fact, NTM are generally harmless. That’s a ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Imagine going to the hospital for a bacterial ear infection and hearing your doctor say, "We're out of options." It may sound ...

A lot of people think of pneumonia as a case of a cold gone haywire, but there is so much more to the disease than that. And knowing exactly what pneumonia is can help you protect yourself and the ...

The concern about fungal disease risks has been raised by Professor Neil Gow, who hails the University of Aberdeen. In an interview with the BBC, Professor Gow points out that more than one million ...

The virus infected different regions of the brain depending on the innate immune system of the mouse. When the researchers zoomed in on the cells in the infected brain regions, they could see that the ...

MANCHESTER, England — The risks for infection are broadly similar regardless of the biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying drug used to treat inflammatory arthritis, but different patterns ...

If you’re a parent or work in the field of childcare, you probably know that children are little germ factories. Illness can spread through a daycare or preschool like wildfire, no matter how many ...