The Philippines is witnessing a rapid rise in HIV infections, recording a 543% rise in cases between 2010 and 2023. One in three people living with HIV is diagnosed at a late stage, compounding ...

Queen's Infection Prevention & Control (IPAC) Online Professional Development Course is a fully online program with interactive content for health professionals who are new to or are about to enter ...

This is also a potentially fatal infection common in puppies ... Puppies with ear mites show up with itchy ears. They are easy to treat when identified, and you can even treat them at home ...

If you are reading this, you are probably not alone. Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair follicles, primarily of ...

A drug used to treat HIV that has also shown promise in preventing infections is not a cure for those already infected, as claimed in social media posts. Apart from rare and dangerous stem cell ...

But at the same time, it can cause eye infections — which present with annoying symptoms ... (Warning: It’s icky.) “Many individuals develop Demodex mites at the base of their lashes, often due to ...

Guidelines to help prevent the spread of infection in healthcare settings. These guidelines were developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada with the support of the National Advisory Committee on ...

Meet Demodex, the face mite, a microscopic arachnid that lives on human skin. The pore is its humble abode and the waxy sebum we secrete is its meal of choice. It's hard to know for sure ...

But what about pore cleaning mites like Demodex folliculorum that spend their entire life living deep in our faces? At night, the 0.3mm long organisms leave the pores to find a new skin follicle ...

“They might not be mites but it could be an allergic reaction to glue or a basic hygiene problem,” she said. Koh says like a lot of eye infections, it can be hard to know what it is until you see a ...