Prior to the discovery of antibiotics, infectious diseases were rampant. Communicable diseases were the most common cause of death, and the average lifespan was about 47 years old. However, this ...

Infections that are resistant to antibiotics are becoming more common around the world, and newborns are the most at risk. Because their immune systems are still developing, it's harder for them to ...

Antibiotics once turned deadly infections into curable ones. That trust is now cracking. Across hospitals and homes, germs ...

Georgetown University Medical Center scientists found using antibiotics did not impact the severity or duration of coughs. Even when a bacterial infection is to blame for the cough, the typical ...

New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Every winter, use of antibiotics surges as the public battle’s colds, coughs and other bugs. But are antibiotics always ...

Antibiotics are often taken casually, but repeated misuse is quietly changing how the body reacts to infections, making ...

Even with correct antibiotic doses, some bacterial infections return because persister cells survive treatment by entering ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As I head into my 25th year of working as a clinical infectious diseases pharmacist, one of the most important ...

When antibiotics are used unnecessarily, bacteria adapt to survive them. “Later, when someone has a real bacterial infection, ...

All of this disproportionately affects the elderly. In a 2023 study of patients with a median age of 75, approximately 30% of ...