antibiotic resistance

A memory haunts Christina Fuhrman: the image of her toddler Pearl lying pale and listless in a hospital bed, tethered to an IV to keep her hydrated as she struggled ...

Antibiotics are over-prescribed in the United States, Canada, and worldwide, often for infections that do not need their help, particularly respiratory conditions. ...

Research into a plant revered by Native Americans for its medicinal qualities offers a promising contribution to one ...

A newly discovered natural antibiotic, teixobactin, could be effective in treating bacterial lung conditions such as tuberculosis and ...

If you are one of the millions of women who have suffered from a painful urinary tract infection, a ...

Primary care physicians in the United Kingdom carry out more than 300 million patient consultations every year and at ...

VANCOUVER—Superbugs are likely to kill nearly 400,000 Canadians and cost the economy about $400 billion in gross domestic ...

It is no secret that many bacteria causing human infections are developing resistance to the antibiotics that used ...

Antibiotics serve two purposes for large-scale meat farmers. They allow them to raise animals in unsanitary, confined conditions ...

An antimicrobial chemical called triclosan is abundant in dust—and linked to changes in the genetic makeup of dust, ...

A substantial proportion of parents confessed to giving their children antibiotics that had been prescribed for someone else, ...

The discharge from factories that produce antibiotics is a hotbed for growth of so-called "superbugs," according to a ...

Before the discovery of antibiotics, people could and did die from a simple cut and those days are ...

Education is required for both doctors and patients.

The discovery in China of an E. coli bacteria that's resistant to a "last resort" antibiotic has epidemiologists ...

Despite recent promises by food companies to reduce their use of antibiotics to raise animals, the CDC found ...

How does president Barack Obama plan on encouraging a reduction of antibiotics use in the meat industry?

Staph aureus bloodstream infection has a 12-month death rate of between 20 and 35%

Per capita consumption of antibiotics in the United States is among the highest in the world. According to ...

Silver has been used as an anti-microbial agent long before people knew of microbes. The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, ...

Penicillin, the wonder drug discovered in 1928, works in ways that are still mysterious almost a century later. ...

Because of massive over-prescribing by the modern healthcare industry, today's crop of antibiotics are becoming less and less ...

The problem is so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern medicine

CDC says factory farming significantly fuels the antibiotic resistant superbug crisis. Scientists have seen troubles brewing for decades, ...

Giant pandas have been found to produce a powerful antibiotic in their blood that rapidly kills pathogens. The ...

New clues to the origins of antibiotic resistance have been found deep underground inside Lechugilla Cave in New ...