Part of what makes medical emergencies so scary is that, by nature, they can happen completely unexpectedly.

She put one of her front paws across my forearm and I felt her nails digging into my skin. It hurt so I gently blew some air ...

one evening before bed. The bite left a small puncture wound below my left thumb, and it stung as I washed it and slathered ...

one evening before bed. The bite left a small puncture wound below my left thumb, and it stung as I washed it and slathered it in antibiotic ointment. (My pride stung, too; animals usually love me.) I ...

one evening before bed. The bite left a small puncture wound below my left thumb, and it stung as I washed it and slathered it in antibiotic ointment. (My pride stung, too; animals usually love me.) ...

As an example, a patient has a serious wound that is infected and is not getting better with antibiotics and wound care. The wound is getting larger, the patient is getting sicker, and without better ...

“She was arrested and admitted to using a razor blade to inflict the wounds as punishment for allegedly stealing six hundred naira to purchase ice cream for his friends”. Odutola mentioned ...

Wound healing is a natural repair mechanism that aims to restore the affected tissue quickly (Yang et al., 2021). Although literature reports research associated with biological, immune, and ...

Owing to the lack of routine culture and susceptibility testing over the past 20 years, marked changes in both the causative pathogens in skin and soft tissue infections have gone unnoticed ...

ETF89, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The ability of Matabele ants to treat wounds within their community points to a highly developed social structure. This cooperative behavior, aimed at caring ...

Diabetes has been associated with elevated risk for or poor therapy of infections by antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant S. aureus, vancomycin-resistant enterococci ...

Cultures taken before and after therapy from 2 patients with small lesions that did not respond to antibiotic ointment were found to contain Group A beta-hemolytic streptococci. This persistence ...