California health officials have issued an advisory after several people who participated in a Tough Mudder race last weekend got sick. Nearly two dozen people who ran in the Tough Mudder challenge at ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A health advisory has been issued for those who competed in the popular Tough Mudder obstacle race at Sonoma Raceway last weekend, a race that has participants crawling through ...

Folliculitis is a skin problem that happens when you get bacteria or a blockage in a tiny pocket in your skin called a hair follicle. You have hair follicles just about everywhere except your lips, ...

Sonoma County health officials are investigating after roughly two dozen people reported a bacterial infection on their skin following the Tough Mudder Sonoma County challenge over the weekend. The ...

Swimmer’s itch is a rash caused by an allergic reaction to the larvae of microscopic parasites that are found in both fresh and saltwater. These parasites commonly live in snails, which secrete larvae ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I've been having trouble with boils for a couple of years. Last year, my doctor told me that it was a staph infection. After about a week on the antibiotics he prescribed, I started to ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — For the millions of people suffering from the intensely red, horribly itchy skin condition known as eczema, the only thing more maddening than their disease is the lack of ...

Some microbes can be quite clingy. Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterial species responsible for staph infections, latches onto human skin with one of the strongest biological bonds ever recorded, ...