A woman in France has been sentenced to life imprisonment for torturing and starving her 13-year-old daughter to death, ...

New dual-sensor bandage technology combines bacterial detection with automated pH monitoring to provide more accurate wound ...

Osteomyelitis, a bone infection caused by bacterial or fungal spread, leads to painful swelling and potential bone loss if ...

James Quinn, Stanford Emergency Department, 300 Pasteur Drive, Always Building M121 MC 5119, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; mtabaka{at}stanford.edu Objectives To determine a current infection rate of dog ...

Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — ...

The fight against skin infections could do without antibiotics. Researchers are exploring a radical solution: targeted electrical pulses. An innovative patch, applied directly to the skin, could ...

In one study by the Mayo Clinic, 1 in 3 cat bites to the hand required hospitalization and some required surgery to clean the wound.

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 ...

Center for Molecular Metabolism, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210094, China Key Laboratory of Metabolic Engineering and Biosynthesis Technology, Ministry of Industry ...