For the first time ever, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has killed a healthcare worker and a patient at a hospital in the United Kingdom, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).

HPA said that after a healthcare worker died in September, it was researched that a form of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) MRSA had also claimed a patient's life

A hospital in London has come out with a computer keyboard that can supposedly cut cases of the MRSA superbug by 10 percent.

The keyboard developed by the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust is designed to be flat so that it is easy to clean; more than that, it is coated with silicone to keep the bacteria off

A study released on Wednesday says that boils and pimples severe enough to go to the hospital emergency rooms are caused by deadly bacteria that often cannot be treated with the usual regimen of drugs.

According to doctors at the University of California, Los Angeles, a deadly bug known as MRSA is the known to cause 59 percent of the skin and soft tissue infections seen in 11 emergency rooms across the U.S.

London, England (AHN)-New research shows your mobile phone could be a major health hazard, crawling with potentially lethal bacteria.

According to the research, with tens of thousands of microbes living on each square inch, cell phones harbor more bacteria than a toilet seat, the sole of a shoe, or a door handle

A cancer hospital in Manchester is treating mouth and throat cancer patients with manuka honey, which is believed to have healing powers.

The honey is imported from New Zealand, where it is produced by bees that feed primarily on the Manuka bush