Although sometimes an abscess will open and drain spontaneously, it often needs to be lanced (incision and drainage) by a health care provider. Certain abscesses may require a surgical drainage ...

Abscesses and purulent drainage In some cases, your doctor might find that an abscess has formed. This happens when an infection causes a pocket of pus to form somewhere in the wound.

The CDC confirmed that a patient in Maryland, recently back from a trip to El Salvador, was diagnosed with a screwworm ...

The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ...

Waterbury Hospital physicians have been using a new treatment for deep, chronic wounds in patients — their own skin. The new ...

As of August 21, 2025, the Florida Department of Health has reported new cases of Vibrio vulnificus. Here's where.

It was only the beginning.” Healing deeper wounds Inside the clinic in Philadelphia, HIV physician Laura Bamford speaks in Spanish to the patient whose abscess she just treated. “It’s a lot better, ...

Archive Typhoid–Bacillus Infection of a Surgical Wound: Treatment with a Urethane-Sulfanilamide Mixture Author: Louis Weinstein, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published February 7, 1946 ...