A test designed by UCLA researchers can pinpoint which people with gonorrhea will respond successfully to the inexpensive oral antibiotic ciprofloxacin, which had previously been sidelined over concerns the bacterium that ...
Aug 7, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Bacterial and fungal infections are uncommon in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, but coinfection is associated with high mortality and antibiotic use is widespread, according to a study published in the July ...
Jul 31, 2020
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The public would comply with major changes to medical advice—but would then be less likely to follow other new guidelines in the future, research shows.
May 6, 2020
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In research recently published in mBio, researchers from the Abigail Wexner Research Institute (AWRI) at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics have discovered non-antibiotic (host-targeted) ...
Mar 10, 2020
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Australian children have one of the highest rates of antibiotic use in the world. More than half have received at least one course by their first birthday.
Jan 24, 2020
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Published in Lancet Infectious Diseases today, a team of British researchers are calling for the development of new antibiotics to be brought into the public sector, in order to fix the 'broken antibiotic pipeline' and tackle ...
Nov 19, 2019
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In the battle against antibiotic resistance, some scientists are trying a new approach: re-sensitising bacteria to drugs they no longer respond to so that existing antibiotics can hit their target once more.
Oct 21, 2019
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New weapons are needed to fight drug-resistant bacteria, one of the biggest threats to global health. By working on new antibiotics or finding ways to revive existing ones in our medical arsenal, scientists aim to avoid a ...
Oct 15, 2019
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The health care market is failing to support new antibiotics used to treat some of the world's most dangerous, drug-resistant "superbugs," according to a new analysis by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine infectious ...
Oct 7, 2019
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People do not expect to die from a simple infection. But that might change: the world is running out of effective antibiotics.
Sep 17, 2019
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