A scratchy throat triggers panic and quick pharmacy visits. Many people reach for antibiotics within hours. A recent social media video by Dr Priyanka Sehrawat, General Physician and Neurologist at ...

The Ministry of Health and the media has reported a surge in the number of HFMD (Hand Food and Mouth Disease) cases and is still expecting a record number of patients to be infected by this virus. We ...

Herpes zoster is a painful vesicular eruption caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV). It is marked by inflammation of the posterior root ganglia of the spinal or cranial peripheral nerves. After a ...

A judge in the US has approved the sale of Purdue Pharma’s consumer health business Avrio, part of the bankruptcy proceedings related to the drugmaker’s proposed $10 billion settlement of claims that ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Povidone-iodine can remove bacteria from skin, but it's ...

Correspondence to Professor Colm Patrick Finbarr O’Donnell, Department of Neonatology, The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; codonnell{at}nmh.ie Objective To determine ...

Aqueous olanexidine versus aqueous povidone-iodine for surgical skin antisepsis on the incidence of surgical site infections after clean-contaminated surgery: a multicentre, prospective, ...

In patients undergoing device implantation for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), alcoholic chlorhexidine did not demonstrate a significant reduction in infection rates when compared with ...

Often, the first signs of rainrot arise just hours after a horse is brought in from the rain: Tufts of hair begin to stand upright in patches over his back, sometimes following the contours of the ...