You can develop MRSA on the leg. These infections are common in people who have had surgery or been hospitalized. Many common antibiotics don’t work to treat MRSA and you may need to seek medical ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a prevalent infection that is resistant to various antibiotic strains. Here are seven things to know about MRSA. 1. CDC data finds MRSA causes 8,000 ...

Severe MRSA infections can be fatal. MRSA mortality rates tend to be highest in older people. Certain underlying health conditions can also increase the risk of death. Staphylococcus aureus is a ...

Since it was published just last week, not all of you have had the pleasure of reading The Primary Source's article "Come and Get It: Promiscuity among gays spreads staph infection" (Jan. 30). While ...

Contact precautions, or CP, don’t need to be deemed an “essential practice” to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in acute care facilities, according to doctors who ...

U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Baltimore City, will introduce legislation today that would establish a national database to track cases of the antibiotic-resistant strain of staphylococcus and other ...

People can contract methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains from poultry even without direct exposure to livestock, according to research published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and ...

State and federal disease investigators are tracking a disturbing increase in deaths among children stricken simultaneously with the flu and a hard-to-treat, fast-moving bacterial germ. Massachusetts ...

— -- New York Giants tight end Daniel Fells has had five surgeries to stave off a staph infection, and doctors are fighting to avoid amputating his foot, according to a report by NFL.com. Fells ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Studies showed that bed bugs could acquire MRSA both externally on the cuticle surface as well as internally ...

Henrico Doctors' Hospital CEO Ryan Jensen declined to answer questions about NICU incidents involving broken bones in babies and a three-year MRSA outbreak that infected 94 infants.