The rap star announced on Monday to her 36 million followers on X, formerly Twitter, that she had punctured her intergluteal cleft with some ... including infection and tissue damage.

Derry Ayer (nonbinary, 27) Dear Derry Ayer, Although the technical term is intergluteal cleft, "butt crack" is ... lot of things that could go wrong: infection, skin damage, permanent ...

Here, we present a rare case of concurrent pilonidal abscess in both the nape of the neck and the natal cleft. To date ... and discharging sinuses in both the nape of the neck and the intergluteal ...

Around one in 700 babies worldwide are born with a cleft lip or palate ... leave them more vulnerable to ear infections and dental problems, and have difficulty with speech sounds as they begin ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released new estimates suggesting around 846 million people aged between 15 and 49 live with a genital herpes infection. That's equivalent to one in ...

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An expert has shed light on the signs of a widely prevalent yet often imperceptible condition affecting nearly 8 million ...

Kenneth Perry, MD, an emergency physician in South Carolina, said his hospital has recently seen an uptick in emergency department visits tied to these infections. "From cough to nasal congestion ...

One of the ways the CDC has stepped up its surveillance of H5N1 infections in people is by asking state public health laboratories to perform additional testing on all patient samples that test ...

Treatment may depend on the cause. A sinus infection, also known as sinusitis or rhinosinusitis, occurs when your nasal cavities become swollen and inflamed. Fluid buildup in the sinuses can allow ...

Without proper treatment, tooth infections can spread to other areas of the body, leading to serious and potentially life threatening complications. A tooth infection, or a tooth abscess ...