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 News 9 viewer has a spider bite, and says it is red, painful, and starting to drain. Dr. Lacy Anderson has the warning signs that it could be something more severe. A News 9 viewer has a spider bite ...

You have had a drain placed in an abscess, which you will need to care for until it is removed. This will include flushing the tube daily as well as cleaning the tube site and changing the dressing.

For the first time, endoscopic drainage was performed in Mumbai in a HIV-positive patient who had developed liver abscess due to fungal infection. A 21-year-old boy was rushed to a hospital in Mumbai ...

Hidradenitis suppurativa lesions and abscesses may release pus or an odorous discharge. A warm compress can help people to drain painful lesions at home, but surgical drainage may be necessary in ...

You have had a drain placed in your liver, which you will need to care for until it is removed. This will include daily flushing the tube as well as cleaning the tube site and changing the dressing.

This was a prospective, randomized, single-blinded study of 48 adult subjects presenting to a single emergency department with simple cutaneous abscesses. All adult patients with cutaneous abscesses ...

Pus is a thick yellowish, whitish, or greenish fluid made up of dead white blood cells, dead tissues, and dead bacteria or fungi. Also called liquor puris or purulent exudate, it is produced as part ...