A deadly superbug that sometimes claims the lives of more than a million people globally a year may have a nemesis that lives right under your nose.

Images have surfaced online of Benoit Saint-Denis just hours out from his UFC 315 fight against Kyle Prepolec and fans are concerned. The Frenchman was then called out by several lightweight ...

It’s possible to get a staph infection from food poisoning, but a number of things have to happen first. This type of infection is caused by the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, or “staph ...

aureus can invade and infect the body, and with serious consequences. In the skin, staph infections can cause boils, blisters, and inflammation. In the blood, they can cause septicemia and sepsis. And ...

The yeast Malassezia helps protect the skin from bacterial infections, but only up to a certain point. Scientists at the ...

Quite literally. It dominates your skin microbiome, where it seems to keep staph infections at bay. The overlooked agent is a species of natural yeast, called Malassezia sympodialis – one of the ...

Call if the pain gets worse after 48 hours. Boils. This is the most common type of skin infection. It’s usually caused by staph bacteria. It’s a pocket of pus that forms over a hair follicle ...

It can cause symptoms of a staph infection, although some people never develop symptoms. Sometimes, staph infections also cause pustules or pus-filled abscesses to form. If you develop a staph ...

Now recent research suggests HPV infection also increases the risk of heart disease. An analysis of seven studies with a total of nearly 250,000 participants found that those who tested positive ...

When the balance between “good” and “bad” bacteria is disrupted, conditions like bacterial vaginosis (BV) can take hold—an infection now classified as sexually transmitted. For decades ...