Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Guidelines were changed to have patients with bone and joint infections treated with oral antibiotics. This ...

Researchers have developed a new surgical implant that has the potential to transform the treatment of complex bone infections. When implanted on an injured or infected bone, the material can not only ...

Patients with above-the-knee amputations have been outfitted with prosthetic legs for more than 500 years. But in recent decades, these prostheses have advanced to become in-bone, where the prosthesis ...

A rare vertebral osteomyelitis caused by multidrug-resistant Candida auris was cured using an initial combination of amphotericin B and micafungin, followed by long-acting rezafungin. The 70-year-old ...

In children with bone and joint infections (BJIs), early switching from intravenous (IV) to oral antibiotics demonstrated comparable safety and effectiveness to prolonged IV treatment, while reducing ...

Staph (Staphylococcus aureus) is the most common germ to afflict humans, and one of the most damaging: it causes diseases like osteomyelitis (bone infection), endocarditis (heart inflammation), and ...

Osteomyelitis is an infection in your bone. Osteomyelitis in your foot or ankle often develops because you have a wound on your foot that isn’t healing. You can develop osteomyelitis even if you can’t ...

The schematic illustration of the synthesis process of Qx-D (A) and the rat model of femoral infectious bone defect (B). In the realm of orthopedic medicine, the challenge of managing infected bone ...

In individuals who have undergone knee or hip replacement surgery, clinicians are noticing increasing numbers of chronic bone infections linked to a bacterial strain commonly found on the skin. A new ...