A Pennsylvania business owner is facing a long and uncertain recovery after a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection nearly ...

As the case of Aimee Copeland entered national consciousness this week, we’ve had occasion to learn about the horrors of necrotizing fasciitis, the body-ravaging infection that’s often referred to as ...

Necrotizing fasciitis, which literally translated means "inflammation of the fascia (connective tissue) causing cell death," is the medical term for what's known as "flesh-eating" disease. A recent ...

Cases of necrotizing fasciitis were analyzed over a period of 7 years (1998–2004) from the archives of Department of Histopathology, Post graduate institute of medical education and research, ...

A Montgomery County business owner is continuing to recover in the hospital after being diagnosed with a rare flesh-eating ...

In December, the Crenshaw family came down with the flu. When then 3-year-old Bryson started feeling ill, mom Megan Crenshaw thought he had a bug and gave him some Tylenol. Then Bryson complained of ...

October 16, 2006 (Toronto) -- A study presented here finds an association between community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) and necrotizing fasciitis (NF), an uncommon ...

From California to Texas and across the country to Florida, a dangerous and potentially deadly infection has seemingly dominated the news this summer: necrotizing fasciitis, colloquially referred to ...

When new mother Lindsey Hubley returned to the hospital with severe stomach pains a few days after giving birth, she was told it was just constipation and sent home, her lawyer told the Toronto Star ...