(PeopleImages/Getty Images) A blood pressure drug has the potential to combat one of the most common, difficult-to-treat ...

Scientists at the Houston Methodist Research Institute have found that the hypertension drug Candesartan cilexetil may help combat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a dangerous ...

A naturally derived molecule shows promise in blocking critical behaviors that bacteria rely on to cause disease.

Treating methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, one of the most notorious antibiotic-resistant superbugs, with certain antibiotics may make some infection patients sicker, according to new ...

LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - British scientists have found a new strain of the "superbug" MRSA in milk from cows and in swab samples from humans and say it cannot be detected with standard tests.

Asian outbreaks of a notorious antibiotic-resistant super-germ are being driven by a gene that helps the bug colonise the nostrils, lungs and skin and evade the immune defences, scientists said on ...

The team is now working to develop chemically modified versions of the drug that may prove even more effective and carry ...