“The main risk is something called rheumatic fever, where the disease can actually get into the bloodstream and infect like ...

While a sore throat can be a side effect of many other illnesses, it's the most telling symptom of strep throat - contributing to more than 5 million physician visits a year in the United States ...

A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of ...

It's essential to treat strep throat if you have it. Late complications include damage to the kidneys and heart valves. Antibiotics, like penicillin and amoxicillin, usually clear strep throat.

No matter how you become infected, strep throat won't just go away on its own like viruses do. As a bacterial infection, it requires antibiotics. "Unless someone is allergic, penicillin is the ...

Doctors across Florida are treating an increasing number of patients with walking pneumonia, strep throat and the flu.