DEAR DR. ROACH: I've been having trouble with boils for a couple of years. Last year, my doctor told me that it was a staph infection. After about a week on the antibiotics he prescribed, I started to ...

There are plenty of infections that you get on a regular basis, such as a cold or a stomach bug, and don't even think twice. You do what you need to do to treat it and recover and you move on. But ...

Clippers star Blake Griffin is the latest athlete to undergo surgery for a staph infection, and it's not as uncommon as you might think. In 2003, the USC football team dealt with a rash of staph ...

Share on Pinterest Jake Gyllenhaal shared in a recent interview that he got a staph infection after being cut by glass while filming his new movie “Road House.” Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM ...

The NFL is learning the hard way that a microscopic foe can be much more imposing than a 300-pound lineman, as a sudden slew of staph infections has sacked several players in the game. Early this week ...

The strain of staph was discovered in the 1960s, with its emergence in athletics coming in earnest in the 2000s. Ominously called the "flesh-eating disease" by some, MRSA is sometimes dismissed, ...

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. Quite literally. It dominates your skin microbiome, ...

Jelly Roll has made some questionable decisions. The rising country music superstar is notably covered in tattoos, including ones on his face and neck. In an interview with Howard Stern, Jelly Roll ...

New research, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, shows giving antibiotics to children with uncomplicated staph infections is warranted and helps prevent recurring infections. A research team, ...