Forty or fifty years ago, thanks to antibiotics, scientists thought medicine had all but eradicated infectious agents as a major health threat. Instead, the past two decades have seen an alarming ...

Humans are desperately in need of new antibiotics, so you can imagine the surprise when a team of scientists uncovered a new ...

Girls given antibiotics during their first year of life, especially in the first three months, are more likely to enter ...

About 8,500 tonnes of antibiotics -- nearly one-third of what people consume annually -- end up in river systems around the ...

Current public health guidelines discourage treating cholera with antibiotics in all but the most severe cases, to reduce the risk that the disease will evolve resistance to the best treatments we ...

Overall, data from 685,665 children (53.4% girls) who were exposed to antibiotics within 2 years of birth were analyzed. Researchers grouped outcomes into three categories — asthma and allergic ...

The selection of patients, duration of therapy, and combination with other drug categories are key factors in optimizing antibiotic use for acne vulgaris, helping to minimize their contribution to ...

Girls given antibiotics during their first year of life, especially in the first three months, are more likely to enter puberty at an earlier age, according to research presented at the first ...

Despite the lack of evidence, antibiotics are often prescribed for men with an elevated PSA Did the antibiotics affect PSA levels in these men? Almost certainly not; the changes in PSA with ...