A research team at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson is developing a drug that works in combination with copper to kill bacteria, including those that cause MRSA, a type of staph ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a type of bacteria that can cause infections and is resistant to several antibiotics. Doctors and nurses sometimes refer to it as MRSA (which sounds like ...

MRSA is a type of bacteria that can be resistant to several antibiotics. MRSA might spread more easily in athletic settings. Preventing MRSA infections is crucial to athletes' health and safety. Skin ...

MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a well known superbug, a pathogenic microbe that can cause serious or fatal infections, which are resistant to treatment with standard antibiotics ...

Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a potential treatment for skin and wound infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The treatment is a ...

A new study has found the antimicrobial properties of certain stem cell proteins could offer a potential treatment to reduce infection in skin wounds. A new Cornell study has found the antimicrobial ...

When a wound turns septic, healing can quickly become a battle. Antibiotics have been the go-to defense for decades, but abuse has created bacteria that are resistant. Deadly germs such as methicillin ...

CDC said that MRSA wounds must be kept covered in order to stop the spread of the serious infection to others. Matney, a former insurance agent, said she also contracted head lice and ringworm at ...

This fall, when stories of MRSA-related deaths hit the presses, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was transformed from an issue primarily known to and monitored by public health ...

ATLANTA – MRSA is a common cause of skin infections throughout the United States. These infections occur in men, women, adults, children, and persons of all races and sexual orientations, and are ...

A study released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM), by researchers at the Baker Institute for Animal Health, part of Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, N.Y., ...