Osteomyelitis is an infection in your bone. Osteomyelitis in your foot or ankle often develops because you have a wound on your foot that isn’t healing. You can develop osteomyelitis even if you can’t ...

Osteomyelitis-related mortality rates have increased in the United States from 1999 to 2023, according to study results published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Prior research ...

Yongdong (Dan) Zhao, MD, PhD, a pediatric rheumatologist at Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington, and Seza Ozen, MD, MSc, medical faculty head at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey — ...

An 11-year-old boy presented with a 4-month history of swelling in the left knee joint. He had a knee injury 4 months earlier, which had required a puncture. The wound was crusted and healed.

Osteomyelitis and septic arthritis are two types of infections usually caused by bacteria that affect your musculoskeletal system. Septic arthritis is an infection of the lining and fluid of one or ...

About a quarter of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis bacteria, according to the World Health Organization, but only about 5 to 10% of those infected will develop symptoms. These ...

Researchers have determined that enhanced bone resorption activity due to a faulty immune response may underpin multifocal osteomyelitis -- painful, chronic bone infections -- in children with MSMD, a ...