A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the deadly drug-resistant bacteria NDM-CRE found a 70% ...

Since the 1940s, antibiotics have been our primary weapon against harmful bacterial infections. But some stubborn pathogens, ...

The cough syrup was contaminated with industrial chemicals. Experts say this is no accident. It's the latest case of what is ...

A team led by UCL (University College London) and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how ...

Some doctors recommend taking probiotics during and after you complete a course of antibiotics — here's why.

Cranberries contain a substance that keeps bacteria from building up in the bladder, but cranberry juice isn't the best way ...

The U.N. health agency found that one in six infections worldwide was resistant to the most commonly available antibiotics.

The antibiotics, called polymyxins, were observed forcing the armored membranes around Escherichia coli bacterial cells to grow bumps and bulges. The bacteria then shed their outer membranes, leaving ...

Green groups regret lax environmental standards on pharmaceuticals, voluntary monitoring and late compliance dates from the political agreement reached on the Water Framework Directive’s revision. EU ...

Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most pressing threats to global health. Infections once treatable with a simple prescription are becoming harder, sometimes impossible, to cure. Doctors ...