News of a failure at Great Western Hospital leading to a multi-million pay-out in compensation has been met with shock and sadness.

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing an increase in cases of viral upper respiratory infections and strep throat.

It’s easy to sail through life, semi-ignoring the fact that you have a belly button. The reality is there’s usually no reason ...

A new comparative study led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine found that a new therapy for prevention of recurrent ...

Pus, strep throat, and even tuberculosis—most infectious diseases are characterized by a cluster of pathogenic bacteria that ...

A unique study purposely giving participants Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) to learn how much penicillin it takes to ...

An ear infection can present as a dull, persistent ache, and is sometimes accompanied by pressure, discharge, itching, fever or muffled hearing. In more severe cases, the pain can be sudden, sharp and ...

Our 8-year-old son got sick with strep throat and had to miss a family camping trip. When my sister called to check on him, she asked me if I knew strep throat can cause obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Although the conventional treatment for strep throat is antibiotics, research shows that they only reduce the length of the illness by about half a day. They also don’t seem to affect time off from ...

Greek yogurt is often touted as healthier than regular yogurt. Learn the key differences and find out which benefits each ...

Three lots of a drug designed to treat various urinary tract infections have been recalled because the white round tablets might have black spots from microbial contamination.

Efforts to reduce child mortality in Africa via mass treatment with the antibiotic azithromycin (AZM) may lead to increased ...