An antibiotic used to treat infective diarrhea could be an effective drug for a type of inflammatory bowel disease, a new ...

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Some bacteria abide against antibiotics not because they are good at hiding, but because their growth slows when nutrients ...

In 2017, a tragic incident unfolded in a Nevada hospital. A woman, admitted for pneumonia, tragically succumbed to multiple ...

The researchers showed that when curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes, eventually killing them.

Ten months after Pfizer scored approval in Europe for Emblaveo (aztreonam and avibactam) to treat complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAIs), AbbVie has done the same in the U.S., ...

A new study shows a low-cost yet effective way to combat bacterial resistance using curcumin–the natural yellow plant ...

Testing new antibiotics in India, South Africa or Brazil, where they are needed most, makes scientific sense. But it’s not without challenges. If the drugs lack global viability, they are less ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study published in the journal ...

The Trump administration’s freeze on communications from U.S. health agencies is leading to another disruption: the abrupt ...

The results of the study are published in the journal Scientific Reports. Before antibiotics, infectious diseases were the leading cause of death and disability around the world. With the advent ...