Researchers have uncovered a recent, perplexing increase in brain infections and abscesses in kids and teens. These rare and life-threatening conditions can be complications of severe sinus infections ...

Clinicians have successfully used antibiotics and steroids, instead of an aerosol-generating procedure, to treat a COVID-19-positive man's peritonsillar abscess. Details were published on September 7 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Doctors at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital released an important warning, after a new report showed a rise in rare brain infections in children. These rare brain infections have ...

A pathogen detection test based on artificial intelligence (AI) was used to diagnose a patient's rare progressive brain abscess caused by a dental infection. Details were published on July 26 in a ...

Breast abscesses represent a significant clinical challenge, particularly in lactating women, where they often arise as complications of mastitis. The management of these infections has evolved ...

Disease detectives with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a cluster of rare and serious brain abscesses in kids in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, and doctors from ...

When Maranda Nyborg started feeling under the weather, she didn't think anything of it. It was October, and she usually caught something as the seasons changed. Nyborg, a Division I student athlete at ...

After seeing an unusually high number of children with life-threatening brain infections last year, doctors are calling attention to the puzzling trend. In a presentation Thursday, researchers at the ...

The abscess can cause swelling in the brain. Health officials are investigating an increase of a rare brain infection occurring in kids in Nevada, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

As sniffle season sets in, sinus infections are among the most common illnesses seen in doctors’ offices. For most people, they’re nothing more than an inconvenience and a few days of congestion, but, ...