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

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 ...

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

Researchers picking apart a marsupial's faeces have warned a bacterium causing a flesh-eating ulcer is present "beyond ...

Though summer and rainy seasons are when conjunctivitis (or Madras eyes) spreads, people should know that all redness of eyes ...

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 ...

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

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

The tissue viability service is a specialist, nurse led service that supports the care of people with complex, non-healing wounds. Patients whose wounds are expected to heal, but has failed to respond ...

A hospital in Devon has apologised to a former nurse for failing to provide adequate care for a pressure ulcer, leading to her losing the ability to live independently. Joyce Musson, from Bideford in ...

Stage III pressure ulcers have full thickness damage with extension of involvement into the subcutaneous tissue, necrosis, drainage, and localized infection. Stage IV pressure ulcers have damage ...

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 ...