New research, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, shows giving antibiotics to children with uncomplicated staph infections is warranted and helps prevent recurring infections. A research team, ...

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The overuse of antibiotics has left some doctors questioning whether to give such drugs to children diagnosed with uncomplicated staph infections. Such infections often occur on the skin and look like ...

IF you have not heard of MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) yet, you will very soon. MRSA (it is generally verbalized as mersa) used to be found only in hospitals. But as a result of ...

SAN DIEGO, California -- What a family thought was a minor scrape on a bike ride turned into a heartbreaking situation for a 3-year-old boy in San Diego. "He fell down, scratched his knee. We put ...