Once a medical miracle, antibiotics are now losing their power. Across the world, common infections are becoming harder—and ...

Nearly 25 percent of adult patients treated for pneumonia with antibiotics in an outpatient setting do not respond to the treatment, suggest the findings from a study presented during the 2017 ...

A new study reveals that antimicrobial resistance is rising worldwide - eroding the effectiveness of last-line antibiotics ...

Taking antibiotics while ill with the flu may increase the risk of developing bacterial pneumonia, according to new findings from researchers at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai. Researchers found that ...

A new scientific review has uncovered how complex microbial communities, including those in the human gut and the natural environment, act as powerful engines that drive the evolution and spread of ...

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A new report in the peer-reviewed journal Telemedicine and e-Health provides a review of the published literature on antibiotic prescribing and antibiotic stewardship in outpatient telemedicine. At ...

Robots are starting to do in a few days what medicinal chemists once needed months to attempt, churning out hundreds of ...

Findings showed zoliflodacin was noninferior to ceftriaxone plus azithromycin (microbiological cure rate, 90.9% vs 96.2%, respectively; difference, 5.3%). The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...

Wastewater surveillance helped us track covid. Now we can use it to tackle the "silent pandemic." This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in ...