Think of your skin as a barrier. It’s typical for about 1,000 species of bacteria to live on it. Healthy skin keeps bacteria and other germs from getting inside your body. If you or your child has ...

Staphylococcus bacteria live on skin and can cause a staph infection if they enter the bloodstream. Staph infections can involve a range of symptoms, like vomiting, rashes or inflamed skin, and fever.

While Monsoon season brings relief from sultry days but it also brings new set of challenges for our skin. This humid period fosters the growth of microbes. During Monsoon, several microbes such as ...

A healthy 17-year-old is referred by his pediatrician for evaluation of recurrent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) soft tissue infections. He was well until approximately 6 months ...

The 35-year-old media personality recounted the incident after she came across Bethenny Frankel’s Instagram post, in which ...