As "superbugs" continue to surge, the World Health Organization is now warning that one in every six bacterial infections are resistant to antibiotics. WHO also called for antibiotic medications to be ...

GENEVA, Oct 13 (Reuters) - One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections are resistant to antibiotic treatments, the World Health Organization said on Monday, calling for the medicines to be ...

Bacteria are rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Monday, with one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections now caused by ...

Widely used to prevent infection, one of the active ingredients in the ointment, Neosporin, is neomycin. Discovered in the 1940s, neomycin is an effective topical antibiotic; however, if injected into ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study evaluated the potential of resistance after exposing E. coli to non-antibiotic medications and ...

A team led by UCL (University College London) and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how life-saving antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armor of harmful bacteria.

The way antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armour of bacteria has been revealed in stunning detail by high-resolution microscopy, which could help us develop new treatments for drug-resistant ...

A startling new study warns that two of America’s most common over-the-counter painkillers, ibuprofen (Advil) and acetaminophen (Tylenol), may have an unexpected role in one of the world's most urgent ...

Lab tests reveal that caffeine may alter bacterial defenses, reducing the impact of certain antibiotics and prompting calls for more research. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly ...

Over-the-counter painkillers including acetaminophen and ibuprofen could be quietly contributing to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This phenomena—in which microorganisms develop the ability to ...

A daily cup of coffee could be blunting the effects of certain antibiotic treatments, according to a new study analyzing the reaction of Escherichia coli bacteria to caffeine. The international team ...