This guide includes an overview of practices for the prevention and management of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI) by healthcare professionals practicing in public health or ...

White spots near the lips may signify underlying health issues, ranging from harmless Fordyce spots to more serious ...

This complex microbial dance seems to have a really important role in our health. Oral diseases and even oral cancers have ...

Practicing good hand hygiene is essential to staying healthy, because the virus is highly contagious and can live on common ...

Without proper treatment, tooth infections can spread to other areas of the body, leading to serious and potentially life threatening complications. A tooth infection, or a tooth abscess ...

Faced with soaring rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, some experts recommend universal screening of all newly admitted hospital patients for MRSA ...

This indicator covers the incidence of healthcare associated infections from Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). It measures outcomes that reflect the quality of care or processes ...

Cold weather can leave you with dry skin and, potentially even worse, dry, cracked, chapped lips. While there are any number of balms or lip protectants on the market, only some may actually be ...

Opening a Body Shop lip balm pot and swiping it on with your pinky finger was as much of a status symbol in playgrounds and school corridors in the 90s and 2000s as Croc charms are now.

For many people — including myself— that’s lip balm. I have multiples of my favorites (there’s a teeny tub of Vaseline and a Rhode peptide lip treatment in my every bag) and somehow still ...

Watch enough videos of people sharing their nighttime beauty routines, and you’ll likely peep a lip mask in the mix. “A lip mask is a concentrated treatment meant to hydrate and repair the ...

Kenneth Perry, MD, an emergency physician in South Carolina, said his hospital has recently seen an uptick in emergency department visits tied to these infections. "From cough to nasal congestion ...