Biomedical engineers from Brown University have developed a new wound dressing material that releases antibiotic drugs only when harmful bacteria are present in a wound. In the new study, published in ...

The family of a sixth-form pupil who died from meningitis in Kent say they are "beyond devasted". Health officials have ...

UKHSA has contacted over 30,000 students and staff and is offering preventative antibiotics to those potentially exposed.

Antibiotics are designed to wipe out infection-causing bacteria, but even a single course can leave a lasting mark on the gut ...

AMR occurs when micro-organisms evolve to survive and even multiply despite medicines designed to kill them, making treatments increasingly ineffective. Although resistance mechanisms are considered a ...

A team of researchers has discovered a bacterial strain called Psychrobacter SC65A.3 that is more than 5,000 years old. It was recovered from an ice core taken 25 meters below the surface. After ...

Joint replacement failures are notoriously common when infections set in, but researchers here outlined several ways to ...

In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

André O. Hudson, PhD. receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Imagine going to the hospital for a bacterial ear infection and hearing your doctor ...

When someone in your family gets sick or injured, being prepared matters. You never know when someone is going to come home with the sniffles or a skinned knee, so having a stocked medicine cabinet ...

Balasegaram is executive director of the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership. No matter how carefully we use the antibiotics we have, drug resistant infections will continue to gain ...