Antibiotics

One key factor is that people only take antibiotics for a short period of time, just until an infection clears.

The patients are believed to have contracted the infection in Southeast Asia.

Less than a century after the discovery of antibiotics, the world is at risk of entering an era in which the life-saving drugs no longer work.

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Drug-resistant superbugs kill 700,000 people every year around the world.

The drug was discovered in the late 1970s.

Scientists warn this STI is acting like a superbug.

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

We need to intervene now in order to avoid the catastrophic consequences of antibiotic resistance.

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.

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

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

The Syrian civil war has created a perfect storm for antibiotic-resistant infections, and these doctors are on the front lines of trying to contain the crisis.

Widespread antibiotic resistance among Syrians could become deadlier than ISIS or Assad’s dreaded air force.

The charity ShareAction has launched an online campaign.

U.S. health officials reported the first case in the country of a patient with an infection resistant to a last-resort antibiotic.

The government has offered a financial incentive to get GPs to cut down on their prescribing.

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the great threats facing Europe and the world.

The limits of abstinence education and the surprising number of deaths from medical error are among the things we learned in Tech & Science this week.

With antibiotics showing diminishing efficacy, it might be time to admit it: Bacteria have won the arms race.

A fractured regulatory system hampered by Big Pharma’s meddling has led to a growing global falsification market.

Triclosan-laden soap took nine hours to show significant antimicrobial activity.

There have been increasing concerns about the number of infections that are becoming resistant to antibiotics

The changing ecosystem within our guts, which to a large extent may be caused by overuse of antibiotics, leads to a greater potential for gaining weight.