A new report looks at the antibiotic use policies at the nation’s biggest restaurant chains for the meat they serve. Here’s ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the world's leading causes of death, claiming the lives of more people than HIV / AIDS or ...

African Matabele ants have recently been observed utilizing natural antibiotics found in their environment to treat their ...

A new study shows that the simple application of computerized provider order entry prompts can reduce the use of unnecessary extended-spectrum antibiotics.

Nature has healed us long before the arrival of modern medicine. Throughout history and across cultures, humans have reached ...

Antibiotics are formulated to kill bacteria—but this affects the healthy ones in your gut, too. A medical doctor specializing ...

Delayed initiation of broad-spectrum gram-negative antibiotic therapy was not linked to worse clinical outcomes among adult inpatients.

Among more than 26,000 US children who had acute infective conjunctivitis in 2021, topical antibiotics were dispensed to 69%.

Recent discoveries are helping scientists face this challenge in innovative ways. Studies have found that nearly a quarter of drugs that aren’t normally prescribed as antibiotics, such as medications ...

The development and spread of antibiotic resistance represents one of the greatest threats to global health. To overcome ...

An antibiotic that is commonly used for urinary tract infections effectively treated gonorrhoea, and may even work against ...

Eyedrops containing hyaluronic acid helped antibiotics better coat the eyes of healthy dogs, compared to traditional eyedrop formulations, researchers recently reported in the journal Veterinary ...