Antibiotic overuse is a key driver in the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a major global health crisis. Researchers have provided compelling evidence that short-course antibiotic treatments ...

Stanford University researchers report that ciprofloxacin use drives persistent antibiotic resistance in human gut bacteria, with resistance emerging independently across diverse species and enduring ...

Since the middle of the 20th century, antibiotics have been among the greatest successes in medicine. They save millions of ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing challenges to global public health as harmful microbes evolve to evade these medications.

Researchers have found that antibiotic-resistant bacteria are fatter and shorter than their antibiotic-sensitive parental strains, and that these morphological changes correlate with changes in the ...

Here's a quick and easy explanation of antibiotic resistance, a growing threat in today's world. And No, it's not YOU who is growing resistant to bacteria. Secret Service finds 17 'skimming' devices ...

This article is also available as a pdf version. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to existing medicines creates one of the biggest dangers for global health. According to the Antimicrobial Resistance ...

Antibiotic resistance is quietly spreading worldwide. According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) latest Global ...

Over half a million cases of gonorrhoea are diagnosed annually in the U.S. and doctors are running out of options to treat antibiotic resistant strains. For the first time in 30 years, researchers ...

Scientists in Switzerland have announced the discovery of a new class of antibiotics shown to be effective against deadly, drug-resistant bacteria. The antibiotic, called zosurabalpin, works by ...

The evidence is in: Less is more when it comes to treating uncomplicated community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in young children. Five days of antibiotic therapy resulted in a superior clinical response ...