Test Your Knowledge on Skin Infections

Patients admitted to the hospital for the common bacterial skin infection cellulitis should be treated as a first line of defense with the potent antibiotic drug vancomycin.

Impetigo is a contagious bacterial skin infection mostly affecting children and is characterized by blister-like sores that could form pus and later scabs.

Skin diseases also known as dermatologic disorders are many in number and so are their causes. The common skin diseases or skin disorders are usually related to the epidermal layer of skin.

View list of drugs used to treat Acne. Click on the listed drug below if you wish to find more details including brand name, price information of drug, dosage, side-effects, adverse events, method of intake and when should the drug be taken.

Alcohol can damage skin causing rosacea, porphyria cutanea tarda, post-adolescent acne, discoid eczema and psoriasis.

Itchy skin, also known as "pruritus", is an irritating, discomforting condition. It affect men and women and often cause a great deal of embarrassment.

Health experts looking into the outbreak of skin infections in four American states last fall revealed that contaminated tattoo ink was the culprit.