Not all medical concerns in the NFL are as readily visible as head injuries or blown-out knees, and some—like Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicker Lawrence Tynes' MRSA infection—may initially go completely ...

[img id=”77367″ align=”alignleft”] This year Dr. Robert Daum, a pediatrician at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, began a study tracking ...

MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a type of staph bacteria that’s resistant to the usual antibiotic drugs used to treat common staph infections. When bacteria are resistant ...

Doctors diagnose MRSA using lab tests on fluid or tissue samples. Treatment with antibiotics may begin even before confirming a diagnosis. MRSA treatment includes antibiotics, which may be oral or ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. MRSA, the antibiotic-resistant superbug usually associated with hospital infections, is widespread in the ...