Tariffs imposed on the countries with which the U.S. imports many goods may hit one area especially hard -- prescription ...

The DEA is encouraging people to use the take-back option instead of flushing old drugs and allowing them to contaminate the ...

Prescription antibiotics, such as penicillin, have helped people to recover from otherwise fatal diseases and conditions since the 1940s. However, many people may consider alternative treatments ...

Mo Carrier has dealt with recurrent urinary tract infections, defined as having three or more UTIs per year or two infections ...

Self-medication, often seen as a quick fix for everyday ailments, is emerging as a dangerous public health issue.

According to a study, tobacco use during an infection treated with antibiotics may require an increased prescription. It may also cause antibiotic resistance development (the ability of bacteria to ...

The antibiotics market generated sales of US$42 billion in 2009 globally, representing 46% of sales of anti-infective agents (which also include antiviral drugs and vaccines) and 5% of the global ...

Antibiotics are often overprescribed by physicians and veterinarians and overused by the public. Where they can be bought for human or animal use without a prescription, the emergence and spread ...

China’s dominance of the market for "active pharmaceutical ingredients" — critical components of drugs — has given it powerful economic leverage and introduced significant risk into the American ...

A new type of antibiotic for treatment of urinary tract infections in women could also work against gonorrhea infections, a new study finds. This could put the medication, called gepotidacin ...

Researchers believe they have identified a new class of antibiotics, nearly three decades since the last new one came to market. Teams at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and the University ...