Researchers have also found that blocking the protein reactivates immune cell function, restoring the effectiveness of ...

Any combat sports athlete hopes to avoid staph infection at all costs, but when they don't, they're forced out of competition ...

A rare and potentially fatal skin infection with nightmarish outcomes may soon have a cure. The infection starts as a seemingly harmless rash, and before a person knows it, more than 30 percent of the ...

Ringworm is causing itchy bumps and rashes ... with an infection known as ringworm. Despite its name, it’s not caused by a worm. Instead it’s the result of a fungus festering in skin, causing ...

Patients with EBS carry genetic mutations that affect the outermost layer of their skin, called the epidermis. EBS is usually an autosomal dominant disorder, meaning that children who inherit just ...

Kirsty Griffiths said doctors told her she might need her foot amputated if the infection didn’t clear up Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

That’s where tests confirmed she had cellulitis. It’s “a common, potentially serious bacterial skin infection. The affected skin is swollen and inflamed and is typically painful and warm to ...

The bacterial infection, known as Bartonella quintana, or trench fever as it was called during World War I, lives in the feces of body lice and can cause skin lesions, fever and bone pain.