SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - A staph infection led to the amputation of a 3-year-old boy's legs weeks after his family arrived in San Diego for a vacation. The Baumkirschners and some friends arrived in their ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Fifteen operating room staffers at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital, including surgeons and nurses, did not participate in surgery for a week to 11 days in August after testing positive for the ...

(HealthDay News) — Invasive methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) infections are more common than invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, according to a ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have uncovered how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, including the notorious MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staph aureus) “superbug” strains, resists our ...