This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT Pressure ulcers occur with some frequency in the elderly, debilitated population in long‐term–care facilities. Pressure ulcers cause ...

About 40 percent of the U.S. population is infected with a bacterium that can cause stomach inflammation and ulcers and increases the risk of stomach cancer. Although the bacterium, called ...

A new risk score for amputation in patients with infected diabetic foot ulcers that could be used easily in daily practice has been developed, with the researchers claiming it may have better ...

A new study has found that people who have Helicobacter pylori, an ulcer-causing bacteria in the stomach, also have a reduced risk of asthma, esophagus caner, and diarrheal disease. People who harbor ...

German scientists provided a case study of a 51-year-old patient that highlighted one of the first symptoms a monkeypox-infected person might notice: an ulcer at the corner of the mouth. The case ...

When you hear the word ulcer you probably think of a sore that causes stomach pain. However, ulcers can also develop on the skin, and some of them pose life-altering health risks. What is a Buruli ...

Genital ulcer disease symptoms increase both during and after acquiring HIV, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Rakia, Uganda. Their study also found ...

Participants in the antimicrobial-dressing treatment arm experienced an additional 119 healing events. However, the researchers considered this "low-certainty evidence," due to risk of bias. Use of an ...

Older diabetes patients who receive prolonged courses of antibiotics are at the highest risk of having infected diabetic foot ulcers, a new study shows. Researchers at Qazvin University of Medical ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The daughter of a 64-year-old nursing home patient who died two years ago from complications of a “severely infected” pressure ulcer has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a ...

Patients who experienced mild or no upper respiratory symptoms developed tongue ulcers within a few days of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 in a new analysis, described in a letter to the editor on ...