Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although talk of necrotizing soft tissue infections — often referred to as necrotizing fasciitis — is rampant in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Early diagnosis of necrotizing soft tissue infection — often referred to as necrotizing fasciitis — is essential ...

Can healthy immune cells from a patient be frozen and used in the future to make adoptive cell therapies in the event of a cancer diagnosis? The drug is designed to modulate the acute inflammatory ...

In January 2012, Lori Madsen, then 51, was walking through a parking lot, when she fell and skinned her arm. Initially, she didn’t think much about the rugburn-like abrasion on her arm – but later ...

Every summer, as the weather heats up and people head to beaches, pools and lakes to cool down, scary reports come in of people who have developed necrotizing fasciitis — a life-threatening ...

(CBS News) - A third case of flesh-eating bacterial infection necrotizing fasciitis has come to light. Thirty two-year-old Bobby Vaughn of Cartersville, Ga. will undergo his sixth surgery to combat ...

A quick surgical reaction to 'flesh-eating bacteria' reduces mortality. With less than half of patients with necrotizing soft tissue infections displaying the physical signs of these very serious ...

An Arizona woman was thought to have the flu when she first sought out medical treatment on January 11. After several days of severe pain, doctors realized she was suffering from necrotizing fasciitis ...

A man who contracted a flesh-eating bacterial infection in his right leg found that the infection had spread to his left one as well, a mere four days later. The 58-year-old man reported to the ...

An Arizona woman who was initially diagnosed with the flu turned out to have a life-threating infection with "flesh-eating" bacteria, according to news reports. The woman, Christin Lipinski, visited ...

"Flesh-eating" bacteria can cause serious infections that can result in loss of limbs and even death. Now, a new study reveals just how the bacteria thrive deep in muscle tissue and cause such severe ...

Changes in the intestinal and colonic proteome in patients with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) may help to characterize the disease pathology and identify new biomarkers and treatment targets for NEC ...