BOSTON, Mass. (Nov. 12, 2009) — Combination drug therapy has become a staple for treating many infections. For instance, doctors treat extensively drug resistant forms of tuberculosis with one drug ...

Some drug combinations can stop or even reverse bacterial antibiotic resistance, an American scientist has said. Harvard researcher Roy Kishony said: "Normally, when clinicians administer a multi-drug ...

The use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections causes a continual and vicious cycle that leads to the emergence and spread of resistant strains. What if it didn't have to be this way? One ...

Researchers have discovered why certain combinations of drugs are actually less effective together than one of the drugs alone. Specifically, antibiotic drugs that block DNA replication work poorly ...

ANAHEIM, CA – The use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections causes a continual and vicious cycle in which antibiotic treatment leads to the emergence and spread of resistant strains, forcing ...