Despite being bed-ridden, mother of two Jennina Shi­vani, 30, still holds on to hope. She is suffering from severe ...

Four days after a Haitian man died while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, the agency released a timeline about what happened.Emmanuel Damas, 56, was living in Boston when he was ...

Avoid unnecessary tests and antibiotics by applying evidence-based, cost-conscious infectious-disease decision-making, with ...

Our group has been working to get a sewerline built for 23-plus years — during three terms of Harry Kim and one term of Mitch Roth. The Alameda administration is the most helpful. Maybe we can move to ...

Testosterone can potentiate S. aureus quorum sensing independent of auto-inducing peptides, increasing toxin release and host-cell damage, whereas progesterone and estrogen do not show the same effect ...

We report the case of a man in his 70s who presented with constitutional symptoms and intermittent confusion, ultimately diagnosed with a large, complex retroperitoneal and extraperitoneal abscess. He ...

“It doesn’t happen often, but a sinus infection can spread beyond the nasal passages and into the brain,” said Elizabeth Liptrap, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery. “When ...

Mark Gurarie is a writer covering health topics, technology, music, books, and culture. He also teaches health science and research writing at George Washington University's School of Medical and ...

Pediatric vascular injuries are rare and present unique clinical challenges due to differences in vessel size, injury patterns, and long-term outcomes compared with adults. We report the case of an 11 ...

METHICILLIN-RESISTANT Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are on the rise, with new statistical modeling showing significant links between community-acquired and hospital-acquired cases, age, and ...

The Staphylococcus bacteria that cause staph infections are with you always, minding their own business as they live on your skin and in your nose, per the Cleveland Clinic. But if they get inside ...