Every year between four and five million Americans suffer from chronic non-healing wounds, many caused by diabetes, poor circulation, pressure ulcers or other conditions. Proper wound care is ...

A boil is a painful, pus-filled bump that forms under your skin when your hair follicles become infected by bacteria and get inflamed. A carbuncle is a cluster of boils (furuncles) that form a ...

A boil, also known as a furuncle, is a swollen, pus-filled growth on the skin that occurs when bacteria—even those normally found on your body—infect a group of hair follicles. Boils commonly develop ...

Bumps that appear on the body can be hard for the average person to detect. Is it a pimple? A boil? A mosquito bite? Dr. Amy Espy-Smith, the area medical director for Concentra, an urgent-care clinic ...

A better way to treat many skin abscesses in the emergency department has been explained by researchers in a new article. The findings are important due to the emergence of community-acquired ...

A boil, also called a furuncle, is an infection of a hair follicle that goes into the deeper layers of skin, causing an abscess (a small pocket of pus). These infections are typically caused by the ...

A boil, also called an abscess, is an infection deep inside the skin that produces redness, pain, swelling, and pus. Boils generally develop when Staphylococcus bacteria invade the body through a ...

"Oh my god. Oh my GOD. OOOOH MYYYY GOOOOD." Those are more or less the exact words that escaped my lips as I watched the latest viral video on Dr. Pimple Popper's Instagram account, in which the famed ...