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 ...

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

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 ...

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

A study comparing one- and three-month antibiotic treatments to prevent active tuberculosis (TB) finds that a high percentage ...

The antibiotic resistome is the collection of all the antibiotic resistance genes, including those usually associated with pathogenic bacteria isolated in the clinics, non-pathogenic antibiotic ...

A novel CRISPR-based technology can spread within bacterial populations to eliminate antibiotic resistance.

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

Tasmania's water provider says there is no risk of antibiotics entering Hobart's water supply, following Huon Aquaculture's use of oxytetracycline in the River Derwent to treat a disease outbreak.