antibiotic resistance

"It is not a matter of if, but when, the next disease will sweep the world with deadly and costly consequences."

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development today.

Officials at the CDC said they weren’t expecting to find this many cases.

A study found that 9% of surfers in affected areas of England and Wales harbored antibiotic-resistant strains of the bacteria.

The dangerous bacteria are spreading rapidly.

In space, our immune system gets weaker, but bacteria seem to get stronger.

Antibiotic-resistant infections are a growing problem, and there is not enough research currently underway to develop new drugs.

Experiments on the International Space Station have shown how bacteria can effectively defend itself.

We need to flat-out socialize the development of new antibiotics, and increasingly regulate the use of existing ones.

When treatments run longer than necessary, patients are put at unnecessary risk of developing antibiotics resistance, the authors explain.

World Health Organization says decreased condom use and increased travel is leading to drug-resistant gonorrhoea

Scientists have used a peptide from Komodo dragon blood to create a drug that helps wound healing in mice.

Just as the World Health Organization releases its first-ever list of such pathogens, a new study reveals an alarming spike in antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections among children. And infectious disease experts are scared.

An EMA report reveals WHO advice has not been taken, endangering human health.

Centuries ago, Indian princes would bathe in the lake. In modern times, even the poorest villagers going anywhere near it.

All 193 U.N. member states are set to sign a declaration to combat drug-resistant superbugs.

A new study finds an estimated 30 percent of scripts written for antibiotics prescribed to patients were neither appropriate nor necessary.