Pigeon fever is a very common bacterial infection in horses caused by the organism Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. This bacteria causes localized abscesses, particularly in the pectoral region and ...

A 60-year-old Caucasian man visited an urgent-care center with acutely tender abscesses on the left jaw and left upper thigh. The physician lanced the pus-filled abscesses to obtain a specimen for ...

Clifford Oral McCreedy of Aledo, Ill, is a careful country doctor. Last week he paid a call, lanced an abscess for a patient and, when he was through, took a proper precaution. He did not put the ...

Payments to doctors by pharma are like an abscess that has been festering for a long time and that now needs to be lanced. Payments to doctors by pharma are like an abscess that has been festering for ...

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