Physicians in the United States prescribe the strongest broad-spectrum antibiotic first more than 60 percent of the time, according to a new study published in the journal Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

Norwegian study finds reduced antibiotic use for childhood respiratory infections, yet high prescriptions for ear infections ...

Now that the term “superbug” is firmly fixed in the cultural lexicon and mcr-1, the gene responsible for making multi-drug resistant organisms resistant to even the strongest antibiotics, has been ...

Antibiotic resistant bacteria are a threat to human lives, and yet the development of new drugs to treat bacterial infections is slow. A group of proven drugs used in cancer treatment for decades ...

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, has discovered saarvienin A, a new type of glycopeptide ...

Once seen as a lasting medical breakthrough, antibiotics are steadily losing their effectiveness. Around the world, ...