After 10 years, just over half the people in a trial of antibiotics for appendicitis have not needed an appendectomy.

In 1928, a chance contaminant in Scottish physician Alexander Fleming’s lab experiment led to a discovery that would change ...

A recent study has found gut bacteria resistant to common antibiotics (ampicillin and ceftriaxone) in a sizable percentage of ...

But a new antibiotic from Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche could change the future of how we treat Gram-negative bacteria. Roche announced on Monday that its antibiotic zosurabalpin will enter phase ...

Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing ...

Imagine going to the hospital for a bacterial ear infection and hearing your doctor say, “We’re out of options.” It may sound ...

In modern medicine, antibiotics are among the most powerful tools for preventing and treating life-threatening bacterial ...

Antibiotic-related adverse events accounted for more than one of ED visits for adverse drug events in US kids from 2019 ...

Aquaculture is critical for feeding a hungry planet, but it does not need to be as reckless as it is today.

Antibiotic treatments are losing effectiveness against a range of common bacterial pathogens, including E. coli, K.

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PhD student Kieyarrah Dennis researches antibiotic-resistant pathogens in water at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.