A new study reports that a biochar-enhanced photocatalyst can efficiently degrade antibiotic contaminants in water, offering a promising strategy for ...

Azithromycin was used early in the pandemic to treat COVID-19 in patients and has continued to be used to fight respiratory ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a rapid and cost-efficient sequencing method that can identify antibiotic ...

Health experts have said gender inequality, violence against women, and limited access to healthcare are accelerating the global crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

Antibiotic resistance is usually treated as a simple yes-or-no problem. A bacterium either survives a drug or it doesn’t. But new research suggests the story may be more complicated. Scientists have ...

Humans have not benefited from antibiotics for long in the grand scheme of things. Antibiotics were deployed for the first time in 1910. In the century since, antibiotics have extended the average ...

Antibiotic production from big pharmaceutical companies has slowed significantly in the last five years, leaving children in low- and middle-income countries particularly exposed to hard-to-treat ...

Think cold weather makes you sick? Learn what really causes winter illness—and why that drippy cold‑air nose is usually ...

Antibiotic resistance is widely linked to antibiotic misuse, yet growing evidence suggests that everyday environmental ...

Overprescribing antibiotics breeds antibiotic resistance. A new tool aims to lower a notably high rate of such prescriptions in Rwanda.

Researchers report that photodynamic therapy increases antibiotic penetration and disrupts resistance mechanisms in laboratory strains.

Once regarded as a dependable shield against severe and life-threatening infections, third-generation cephalosporins – broad-spectrum antibiotics often reserved for serious, hard-to-treat infections – ...