Silvadene (silver sulfadiazine) cream is a topical antibacterial drug used to treat or prevent bacterial infections associated with burns. It works against a wide range of microorganisms that cause ...

Mupirocin is a generic prescription medication. It comes as a topical cream and ointment. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved these different forms to treat certain bacterial skin ...

A newly approved medicinal cream made from pineapples could be a "game-changer" for burn patients, doctors say. At Stony Brook Medicine’s burn center in New York, doctors recently started using ...

The sudden pain of a minor kitchen burn sends most people rushing for commercial burn creams or ointments tucked away in medicine cabinets. Yet these pharmaceutical options, while convenient, often ...

Dear Doctors: I burned myself on the stove, but it didn’t look bad so I wasn’t worried. The next morning, the skin had turned red and the burn was all swollen. What’s the right way to take care of a ...