Your child may have picked up conjunctivitis, or pink eye, from school. Here's the symptoms to look for, and treatments to ...

Face swelling can be caused by a few things, including an infection. Here's why your face might be swelling, plus what ...

RUN out of time to go to the GP for a new prescription or your local pharmacy to restock the medicine cabinet?  It can be ...

Correspondence to Elissa M McDonald, Department of Ophthalmology, New Zealand National Eye Centre, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New ...

So what does this mean for skin health and diseases?” Though there are many studies out there that introduce potential solutions to the problem of antibiotic resistance, “what was fun and interesting ...

To see if the mouse model had some significance for health, Hsu's research team went straight to one of the hottest topics in the field: the collateral damage that antibiotics have on a patient's ...

Experts say bacterial infections are responsible for more infant deaths than is generally recognised, and things may get worse as more of the bugs become resistant to commonly used antibiotics.

aureus resistant to vancomycin—the antibiotic of last resort in treating life-threatening infections. This growing public health problem has spurred renewed efforts to discover novel types of ...

Across the world, there are reports of shortages of common antibiotics. Ben Hargreaves examines why these shortages are happening and what is being done in the background to return supply to normal.