Just in time for bed bug season: According to the AP, "Canadian scientists detected drug-resistant staph bacteria in bedbugs from three hospital patients from a downtrodden Vancouver neighborhood." Uh-oh! more ›

Seeing as how April is STD Awareness Month, now might be an appropriate time to hit you with some terrifying awareness. Are you sitting down? Because researchers say that gonorrhea is increasingly developing resistance to all of the antibiotics we have to treat it. Does that mean it's becoming a (gulp) SUPERBUG? "This may be the harbinger of things to come. The resistance may be getting worse," said Dr. Kimberly Workowski, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of STD Prevention. As if we needed yet another reason not to jump in the Gowanus Canal anytime soon. more ›

The health scare of the season continued this week with news of an outbreak of the methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) "superbug" at an Upper East Side hospital's children's ward. The New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center said that nine infants were infected with the drug-resistant strain of bacteria that killed a New York 7th Grader last month. Omar Rivera Jr. was felled by the staph infection on October 14th after being misdiagnosed at Kings County... more ›