To amputate or save a limb? Philly’s tranq crisis is forcing doctors to make difficult choices amid a slow public health ...

Image via Shutterstock Researchers are warning about a deadly parasite that appears to be on the rise. Hunters and trappers ...

Flood waters pose a range of health risks due to exposure to various pathogens and contaminants. Here are 10 common diseases ...

Blood can be very dramatic to the inexperienced eye but it can be a good indicator as to how urgent the situation is ...

Enables medical professionals to observe skin without removing dressings; aims to reduce secondary infections and save time ...

• Antibiotics seem to reduce surgical site infections in people undergoing aortic or aortoiliac surgery. • Other interventions assessed appear to make little or no difference in reducing the incidence ...

Acute respiratory tract infections in children are responsible for millions of death and hospitalisation in developing countries every year. The most common infections are of viral etiology. Most ...

Hospital-acquired infections are infections patients didn’t have when they were admitted to hospital. The most common include wound infections after surgery, urinary tract infections and pneumonia.

ONE of the UK's most common bugs almost triples the risk of death for a year after infection, scientists have discovered. For many of the 3.6million adults in the UK who catch respiratory ...