Antibiotic resistance is becoming an accelerating crisis because of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics over many years.

A new Rutgers Health study reveals a surprising twist in the antibiotic resistance story: instead of simply killing bacteria, drugs like ciprofloxacin can actually trigger a kind of microbial survival ...

A Monash University-led study has found that an unusual pairing of two commonly used antibiotics can kill and stop the spread ...

Painkillers we often trust — ibuprofen and acetaminophen — may be quietly accelerating one of the world’s greatest health crises: antibiotic resistance. Researchers discovered that these drugs not ...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the deadly drug-resistant bacteria NDM-CRE found a 70% rise in infections in the U.S. between 2019 and 2023. Also known as ...

For as long as we’ve known that soil bacteria manufacture molecular weapons to fight each other, we’ve been swiping their battle plans. In clinics and hospitals, those turf-war weapons have become ...

Antibiotic resistance allows bacteria to grow despite antibiotic exposure, whereas antibiotic tolerance allows them to survive lethal treatment longer without increasing MIC. Understanding this ...