Common signs of a hangnail infection are pain and swelling around the fingernail or toenail. Wearing artificial ... More severe cases call for antibiotics or medical treatments.

An infected ingrown toenail will likely require prescription antibiotics—like Keflex (cephalexin)—to clear the infection. The ...

Your toenail may fall off after an injury or trauma to the toe or as a side effect of certain medications you may be taking. In other cases, it may be a sign of an infection, underlying skin ...

However, their value in the management of uncomplicated skin infections is not yet clearly defined. This literature review discusses various topical antibiotic treatment options for uncomplicated ...

When bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, it makes it more difficult to treat diseases caused by those bacteria and limits the treatment options. Alternative treatments may be costly and, in some ...

The report predicted that unless measures for tackling antibiotic-resistant infections are scaled up, the annual costs to the world’s healthcare systems will reach a staggering $412 billion by ...

But antibiotic-resistant infections are still rising - up 9% between 2017 and 2018, to nearly 61,000. Public Health England is urging the public to take antibiotics only when necessary.

Antibiotics are a popular group of medicines that help the body fight bacterial infections. In 2017, alone, physicians wrote Americans around 260 million antibiotic prescriptions, according to the ...

Diabetes has been associated with elevated risk for or poor therapy of infections by antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant S. aureus, vancomycin-resistant enterococci ...

When Joy Braziel, 52, noticed an ingrown hair on the right side ... Braziel went to urgent care and was prescribed a common antibiotic to treat the infection. The next day, she finally got in ...