These areas can become pitted (like an orange peel) or form blisters. Cellulitis often develops on your legs and feet. Treatment includes antibiotics. Impetigo is a highly contagious yet usually mild ...

Ancient Chinese practices and a growing body of medical research suggest that massaging specific pressure points on your feet can benefit entirely different parts of the body. Reflexology is the ...

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Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic. All it takes is a single mutated S. aureus—one that ...

The Cold Chisel frontman revealed that a stubborn staph infection, which previously targeted his heart, had returned, this time attacking his hip. 'Staph infections love to hide in places like ...

Nosocomial infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is becoming a worldwide problem. In a recent European study, researchers concluded that universal screening of hospital ...

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type of staph infection ... higher tea tree oil cream might be used for athlete's foot. A 100% tea tree oil solution has been used with ...

Two hundred and sixty-three hospitals in the U.S. have a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection rate of zero, as based on the healthcare-associated infections dataset from CMS.

If you have a staph infection or staph bacteria on your skin, you can also transmit it to other people — through skin-to-skin contact or on objects where the bacteria live, like towels or bed ...

Despite using her towel as protection from any germs on the gym equipment, she ended up with a staph infection on her arm that landed her in hospital. “I felt like my towel was the reason I got ...