Researchers have revealed how antimicrobial resistance spreads from gut bacteria to potentially dangerous hospital superbugs.

Antibiotic resistance is often framed as a hospital problem, but a growing body of evidence shows that the environment plays ...

Kamini Walia, senior scientist at ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), explains how the overuse of antibiotics is ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have uncovered how a ...

The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of ...

The clinical approval of penicillin in 1945 kicked off a 25-year period that is now commonly referred to as ‘the golden age of antibiotic discovery,’ in which antibiotic discovery progressed at a ...

Microbiologist works with tubes of bacteria samples in an antimicrobial resistance and characterisation lab at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [AP Photo/David Goldman] A stark ...

If you have had strep throat or an ear infection, there's a good chance you received amoxicillin or penicillin to effectively ...

Our world is rapidly running out of antibiotics that can combat bacteria and other microorganisms that have developed antimicrobial resistance. (Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about why diabetic foot infections can become so severe and difficult to treat. By ...

European surveillance data have revealed that Campylobacter bacteria in humans and animals and some strains of Salmonella continue to be highly resistant to widely used antimicrobials. The two genera ...

Whenever fever, cold, or body pain troubles us, the first instinct is to pop a painkiller like paracetamol or ibuprofen without thinking twice. These medicines are widely used to provide quick relief, ...