Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Imagine living in the days prior to antibiotics, when a skin and soft tissue infection was as feared as the ...

October 24, 2011 (Orlando, Florida) — While the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), particularly the community-acquired form, in ophthalmic infections continues to rise, ...

June 5, 2012 — Orbital infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are on the rise. Now, a new case series suggests physicians may be able to identify them more easily by ...

MRSA, first identified in 1960, became a major cause of healthcare-associated infection with the emergence of epidemic strains EMRSA 15 and 16 in the 1990s. MRSA bacteraemia surveillance in England ...

It might sound like a really old wives’ tale, but a thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon potion for eye infections may hold the key to wiping out the modern-day superbug MRSA, according to new research. The ...

Researchers in Britain and the U.S. have found that a medieval concoction meant to treat eye infections also has the ability to kill the MRSA superbug. The Daily Telegraph reported that the recipe, ...

The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston has received an $11 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to coordinate a Harvard-wide project on antibiotic ...

Could a 1,000-year-old concoction be the answer to stopping superbugs? Christina Lee, an Anglo-Saxon expert at the University of Nottingham, found the recipe for a remedy for eye infections in a 10th ...