This week, in the American Journal of Pathology, two San Francisco doctors offer an unexpected reply: the clot forms as the result of a reaction between arterial blood and material from a diseased ...

A man whose dog was put to sleep after being found with a burst abscess, a tumour and fleas has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years. A shih tzu, called Skye, was found staggering on a road ...

An abscess occurs when an infection causes a pocket of pus to develop. Abscesses can develop on the skin, in the mouth, or inside the body. Bacterial infections typically cause abscesses. Pus develops ...