Rare Blood Infection Surfaces in Injured U.S. Soldiers
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An unexpectedly high number of U.S.  soldiers injured in the Middle East and Afghanistan are testing  positive for a rare, hard-to-treat blood infection in military  hospitals, Army doctors reported on Thursday.
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People who handle rats in labs or keep  them as pets are at risk of contracting a rare but potentially  deadly disease called rat-bite fever, U.S. health officials  said on Thursday.
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Many of the soldiers and civilians being treated in a U.S. military hospital in Germany after being injured in an insurgent attack on a base in northern Iraq are in serious condition but all are expected to ...
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NEW YORK  - Among patients treated at urban  public hospital emergency rooms for skin and soft-tissue  infections, more and more often the cause appears to be the  antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' known as MRSA, new research  shows.
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About 21,000 American soldiers, most of them from units sent to Iraq, have been treated at the biggest U.S. military hospital outside the United States since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, the hospital said Monday.
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Whenever Lt. Col. Andrew Lourake visits Ward 57 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, he takes along a sheaf full of stories to buck up service members who have lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A worrisome superbug seen in prisoners and athletes is also showing up in people who get illegal tattoos, federal health officials said Thursday.
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Benefits of an antibiotic linked to rare reports of severe liver problems, including several deaths, outweigh its risks in treating pneumonia but not less serious bacterial infections like bronchitis and sinusitis, federal health advisers said Friday.
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The U.S. military will give flu  shots to troops in Iraq and other key areas overseas and to  high-risk family dependents, but thousands of others will go  unprotected this year, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
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LONDON, March 11 -- British soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are receiving "appallingly" poor care in British hospitals, according to families who have made complaints similar to those leveled against the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
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They can do it for love of God and country - or for the $60. Either way, soldiers vaccinated against anthrax have the opportunity to help future anthrax victims by donating their blood.
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Landstuhl is the biggest U.S. military hospital overseas, and its doctors also treat soldiers with non-combat injuries and illnesses.
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Four military recruits died in the past year and thousands others were sickened by a flu-like virus that the military once had a vaccine program for but abandoned to save money.
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Federal health officials said they were investigating dozens of blood infections in at least two states that have been linked to contaminated medical syringes.
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Troublingly little is known about the possibility of getting a viral infection like hepatitis B, hepatitis C or H.I.V. from a health care worker.
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U.S. health officials said on Friday they approved a new device that could help save the arms and legs of injured soldiers and trauma victims.
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Federal health officials said Tuesday they are investigating dozens of blood infections in at least two states that have been linked to medical syringes contaminated with bacteria.