Every year, bacteria kill more than a million people worldwide through infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. In ...

Companies are aggressively marketing home medical kits containing prescription antibiotics and other drugs for self-treatment ...

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

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

Antibiotics save lives, but they are also a global health threat. Scientist Noëlie Maurin at SINTEF has an idea that could ...

When it comes to bacterial infections in the gut, antibiotics are effective yet broad-acting: although they might kill disease-causing species effectively, beneficial microflora can get caught in the ...

ROME, June 8 (Reuters) - Genes linked to antibiotic resistance are present across multiple ocean basins, including remote waters, according to findings released on Monday from an Italian-led research ...

A new perspective article in Biocontaminant proposes a three-part evolutionary framework for using bacteriophages to better ...

Deep inside a Romanian ice cave, locked away in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice, scientists have uncovered a bacterium with a startling secret: it’s resistant to many modern antibiotics. Despite ...

Resistance to antimicrobial agents is rising among human infections with Escherichia coli bacteria that produce the Shiga toxin, according to a study analyzing data from nearly 2,000 infections in the ...

June 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. FDA has approved GSK's (GSK.L), opens new tab oral antibiotic to treat complicated urinary tract infections, the regulator said on Wednesday, giving patients a new ...