Medically reviewed by Susan Bard, MD Having psoriasis, an autoimmune condition that causes inflamed skin patches, can make ...

Antibiotic treatment during an influenza infection actually impaired the body’s efforts to clear bacteria rather than helping the body heal.

Public health officials are concerned that we could move back into a situation like that of the early 20th century, before ...

Whenever possible, the narrowest spectrum antibiotics should be used to treat an identified MRSA infection and, when it is cured, they should be discontinued as soon as possible. Furthermore ...

Once it gets into the body, through wounds or medical tubes, it can cause an infection that could kill someone already weakened by illness. In Britain, it is estimated that MRSA and other ...

aureus, including hard-to-treat infections caused by methicillin-resistant strains (MRSA), said Basilea. Ceftobiprole was turned down by the FDA in 2009 for ABSSSI, when the drug was partnered ...