A flesh-eating bacterium that causes gaping ulcers has taken root in a NSW holiday spot, with warnings from experts that it ...

Bedsores strike many of those who are largely confined to a bed or wheelchair, and they are tough to treat. Every year, over ...

A doctor can also remove a piece of stomach tissue for analysis in a lab, a procedure known as an endoscopic biopsy. Treatment for stomach ulcers will depend on the cause and severity. Most ulcers ...

Peptic ulcers are open sores that occur when the ... This causes the stomach acid to tear into the layers of tissue underneath the stomach lining or duodenum (the first segment of the small ...

Experts have sounded the alarm about an infection that eats away at flesh and warned about a potential spread after two cases ...

The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel redefined the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of pressure ulcers in 2007, including the original 4 stages and adding 2 stages on deep tissue ...

Aaron Smyth is graduating today having used his creativity throughout his studies to empower people with learning ...

Two cases of the flesh-eating Buruli ulcer have been confirmed in Batemans Bay, with infectious diseases experts labelling the town a “new endemic focus of human Buruli ulcer transmission”, as the the ...

The use of sclerosants (including absolute alcohol) in injection therapy for bleeding ulcers should, however, be discouraged: extensive and uncontrolled tissue necrosis caused by sclerosants ...