A detainee at Brooklyn’s notorious federal jail was sent among the general population despite open wounds and a nasty, contagious infection — and made to wear a yellow jumpsuit to single him out, ...

A furious federal judge described staff of Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center as “contemptuous of human life and dignity” after jailers defied her order to send an inmate with a severe ...

MRSE and MRSA are bacterial infections caused by the Staphylococcus genus. These infections are resistant to several types of antibiotics, making them more difficult to treat. They can cause serious ...

A flood of media coverage has put a spotlight on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) after a number of recent cases arose in Virginia and several other states. David Popham, associate ...

The story of MRSA begins just four years after methicillin entered medical practice in 1959. The bacteria had already developed resistance to the new antibiotic, demonstrating the remarkable ...

Is that red bump a spider bite or could it be a staph infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcal aureus (MRSA)? MRSA, a newer type of staph infection, has been present in Iowa since at ...

Severe MRSA infections can be fatal. MRSA mortality rates tend to be highest in older people. Certain underlying health conditions can also increase the risk of death. Staphylococcus aureus is a ...

September 13, 2009 (San Francisco, California) — Universal screening using rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA) in hospitals appears to ...

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, ...

A viewer says they keep getting skin infections with MRSA; they want to know what it is and how it can be prevented. Doctor Lacy Anderson has the answer. MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant staph.