Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and sepsis were widespread and lethal until antibiotics made them ...

In a recent study, a group of economists found that taxing some antibiotics that are more profitable than others could be a highly effective measure to prevent doctors from over-prescribing those ...

Researchers have found a superbug resistant to all antibiotic treatments, including “last resort” drugs, according to a report from The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Findings like this have accelerated ...

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

Editorial: Our magic bullets are increasingly rare and ineffective. The golden age of discovery is over and the way we develop and use drugs needs to change ...

Taxing certain antibiotics could help efforts to tackle the escalating threat of antibiotic resistance in humans, according to a new study. Taxing certain antibiotics could help efforts to tackle the ...

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

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