In August 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) added a warning about Fournier gangrene (FG) to the labels of all SGLT2 inhibitors, used to treat type 2 diabetes. And as reported by Medscape ...

A patient in South Australia lost part of his genitals after a rare disease led him to develop penile gangrene. The patient, who was not identified in a case report published in BMJ Journals, ...

An 84-year-old Army veteran in Jacksonville, Florida, died after he reportedly developed a gangrene infection in his genitals. Now his family members allege the nursing home where the veteran lived ...

FDA LOGO BLUE The infection developed within several months of the patients starting SGLT2 therapy and the drug was discontinued in most cases. All patients required surgery and there was 1 reported ...

A man developed an "unusual" case of gangrene, or tissue death, after an improperly applied external catheter cut off blood flow to his penis and led to a serious bacterial infection. Unfortunately, ...

Aug. 30 (UPI) --The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning that a class of type 2 diabetes drugs in rare cases might cause a flesh-eating bacterial infection of genitals. The condition ...

After the FDA last year slapped a warning label on SGLT2 diabetes drugs, detailing risks of an infection with a rare flesh-eating bacteria, a team of researchers has come out with a new set of numbers ...

The list of mysterious symptoms related to the coronavirus keeps getting longer. The latest unexpected side effect happened to an 86-year-old woman in Italy, whose fingers turned black with gangrene ...

Clostridium perfringens is a spore-forming bacteria that can function without oxygen (anaerobic bacteria). These gram-positive bacteria are typically found in human and animal intestines. Bacteria are ...