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An oral antibiotic tablet used to treat common eye infections may prove an effective medicine for a sexually transmitted bug that has become resistant to usual recommended treatment, suggest doctors ...

ANSWER: There are two main reasons. The first is that antibiotics, which are effective against bacteria, are not effective ...

Zuckerman is president of the National Center for Health Research and a former congressional investigator on FDA approval standards. Powers is professor of clinical medicine at George Washington ...

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

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

One in six laboratory-confirmed bacteria in 2023 proved resistant to antibiotic treatment, according to the World Health ...

Researchers at Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI) and the Irish Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory at St James's ...

Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new ...

NOTHING WORKED. FOR NINE MONTHS DR. Cynthia Gibert desperately tried one antibiotic after another on her 57-year-old kidney patient, but no matter which tablets, capsules or even IVs she gave him-from ...

Your morning coffee and antibiotics may not get along too well. Here's how caffeine can influence the effectiveness of your antibiotics (and vice versa).