Meitheal Pharmaceuticals has gotten federal approval for a new kind of antibiotic for use on hospitalized patients with ...

Life just got more difficult for those fighting antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Researchers at McGill University have ...

Introduction By 2050, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could lead to over 10 million deaths annually and $100 trillion in healthcare costs, making it one of the most urgent public health threats. The ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Constipation is not a common side effect of antibiotics, but may be more likely if you are ...

To kill drug-resistant bacteria, “last-resort” antibiotics borrow a tactic from Medusa’s playbook: petrification. New high-resolution microscope images show that a class of antibiotics called ...

Antibiotics have been one of humanity’s most powerful tools in the fight against infectious disease. But there’s a pretty big ...

Amoxicillin and penicillin are both antibiotics in the penicillin class. Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin in 1928, and it was available to treat infections by the 1940s. Before this time, ...

But when that company pivoted, Bester took matters into his own hands and decided to start his own firm. He wanted to find a ...

Chemists from the University of Warwick and Monash University have discovered a promising new antibiotic that shows activity against drug-resistant bacterial pathogens, including MRSA and VRE ...