A new class of antibiotic has been found to be safe and effective in treating gonorrhea in late-stage trials, according to a new study published Monday in The Lancet. The drug, called gepotidacin, ...

New surveillance data from WHO warn of a concerning trend — drug-resistant gonorrhea, which has been a public health concern ...

As more and more pathogenic bacteria gain resistance to commonly used antibiotics, the search for new, effective, and safe antibiotics has become vital. According to The Lancet, almost 5 million ...

Scientists from the University of Illinois Chicago and Harvard University have announced the development of a potent new antibiotic that could revolutionize the fight against drug-resistant bacteria.

A new antibiotic has proven as effective as the last remaining recommended treatment for gonorrhea, helping to assuage mounting fears among public health experts about the emergence of drug-resistant ...

Dangerous bacteria and other disease-causing microbes are rapidly evolving ways to defy our best antibiotic medications, a ...

But at the United Nations high-level meeting on AMR) in 2024, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, highlighted another side of the problem that has ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing global crisis, particularly in India, where infections are increasingly defying common ...

Resistance can decline and older drugs can regain usefulness, but only if hospitals, communities and policymakers commit to long-term behavioural change and evidence-based interventions ...

Acinetobacter baumannii, seen under a scanning electron microscope, is a gram-negative bacterium responsible for thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths in the U.S. each year. An ...

The Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute (ITDI) at Ohio University turned science into art recently, hosting a painting ...