Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause up to 10 million deaths each year by 2050, making it one of the most pressing ...

Antibiotics are widely considered one of the most important advances in the history of medicine. Their introduction into clinical practice during the 1940s marked a major milestone in the control of ...

During the 15 years that Maureen Lake of Denver was a special education teacher, she had four or five urinary tract infections a year. “I couldn’t get to the bathroom when I needed to go, so I’d hold ...

U.S. doctors are prescribing enough antibiotics to give them to 4 out of 5 Americans every year, an alarming pace that suggests they are being overused, a new government study finds. Overuse is one ...

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

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

Humans are excellent at many things — including creating our own most prominent problems. One of these is the evolution of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, aka MRSA. This ...

Although antibiotics are essential medications for treatment of bacterial diseases, there can be serious consequences if they are misused. Using antibiotics without medical guidance can not only lead ...

Antibiotic overuse is highest in the South and Appalachia Antibiotics have been commonly available since the 1940s Southerners suffer more infections than people in other regions NEW YORK — U.S.

A doctor caring for a boy who later died from meningitis has said she "deeply regrets" stopping antibiotic medication, an ...

Blinkit's doctor-call service has raised several questions about accountability, mostly blurring the line between accessibility and safety. Doctors warn strongly against this practice as it only ...

Evolution of microbes means it is necessary to find new drugs to battle them The Ancientbiotics team is compiling a database of medieval medical recipes One recipe turned out to be a potent ...