Since the 1940s, when people started regularly using antibiotics to fight bacterial infections, these miracle drugs have ...

OPINION: Medical science can't keep up with antibiotic-resistant superbugs. The U.S. government and artificial intelligence can help.

NEW YORK --For the first time, a U.S. patient has been infected with bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort treatment, scientists said Thursday. The patient -- a 49-year-old woman ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are poised to become a global health concern in the coming decades. In the race to develop new weapons, scientists from Texas A&M have created a novel family of ...

The ECDC warns of a ‘perfect storm’ and calls for innovation, including through the development of new medicines, enhanced ...

Has a crucial component to the development of human medicine been hiding under our feet? Auburn University Assistant ...

As antibiotics become more commonplace, whether we need them or not, superbugs are worrying doctors and turning up more and more often. So the race is on to find methods to kill superbugs without ...

While a hospital is supposed to be a sterile, safe place where sick people go to get better, thousands of patients each year actually end up sicker because of hospital-acquired infections. A new ...

It’s not good news. New research shows that some of the most used hospital cleaners are completely ineffective on a deadly superbug that commonly causes sickness in medical settings, according to the ...

In July 2014, the UK government commissioned the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to address the ever-growing concern that superbugs, resistant to current antibiotics, could eventually evolve ...

A study by LV Prasad Eye Institute highlights rising antimicrobial resistance in post-cataract infections, with aggressive ...

The history of antibiotics is a history of running in place. Two years after the first of these life-saving drugs—penicillin—was mass-produced, bacteria that resisted the drug became widespread, too.