"What are sometimes called superbugs — microbes resistant to every available drug — are not merely the stuff of nightmares.

A growing threat of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) pathogens poses a critical public health threat—and drinking water plumbing ...

Australian researchers have found that drinking water plumbing systems are a significant yet overlooked source of ...

Specific host factors, such as immune cell activity, sex hormones and microbiota composition, influence the ability of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria to colonize the gut of mice.

Before Rep. Pat Harrigan came to D.C., no one seemed to notice that a CCP-linked company had stores that sold health products ...

On a bright, sunny day, after a nice walk with your dog, you stop at a local cafe to grab a drink. At the counter, you spot a ...

Burke Rehabilitation® announced today key patient care statistics following the one-year milestone of offering hemodialysis (HD) at its acute rehabilitation hospital. As the first and only ...

(MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a strain of bacteria responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans.) The legislation “requires the Department of ...

It's unclear how these high-profile athletes acquired their infections, but locker rooms have been found to habor staph bacteria in previous outbreaks. The topic is generating buzz throughout the ...

It all started when he came to the hospital for a fractured foot from a pick-up basketball game about 12 days ago.