Five of the top ten visited pages on the NHS website last year were for conditions that mostly affect the young ...

Modern vaccines have been so successful that the parents and guardians of today have never witnessed the devastation that can result from contracting common childhood diseases like measles, mumps and ...

A New York City Board of Corrections report found that Rikers Island detention officers repeatedly blocked medical staff from ...

Kristi Meredith says her three-year-old daughter had a raging fever, swollen face, body rash and tell-tale signs of scarlet fever but waited 14 hours at ­Victoria General Hospital’s emergency ...

City correction officers repeatedly blocked medical staff from administering care to a severely ill woman held at Rikers ...

Scarlet fever was once a feared childhood disease and, indeed, if left untreated it may lead to very serious health problems. But although the symptoms can be debilitating for some people ...

Charizma Jones was receiving treatment for a possible case of scarlet fever when she was transferred to an infirmary unit May 4 for worsening symptoms. But when medical personnel attempted to ...

Each person must recognize how much his own life is contingent upon the proper functioning of the environment that depends completely upon the existence of wildlife.

It can be treated with antibiotics. Other infections from group A strep include mild ones like impetigo and scarlet fever, as well as more serious infections like cellulitis, necrotizing fasciitis ...