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 ...

Hiding behind the current COVID-19 pandemic, another serious public health threat is looming – the rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs.” New antibiotics are needed to help turn the tide, but ...

With the country still grappling with COVID-19, it’s hard to be concerned about much else. Regardless, we need to reckon with other looming public health threats to forestall future pandemics, and ...

Regulatory Hurdles Are Higher, but a New Well-Defined Path Means We Know How High to Jump Antibiotic development has become a challenging therapeutic area. Shifting and evolving regulatory guidelines ...

India faces a severe threat from rising antimicrobial resistance that endangers public health. Infectious disease experts ...

“Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable ...

Evolutionary biologist Tiffany Taylor explores the work being done to resensitize antibiotic-resistant bacteria to drugs as a strategy to defend ourselves against the growing antibiotic resistance ...

New discoveries are helping scientists face this challenge in innovative ways. Studies have found that nearly a quarter of drugs that aren’t normally prescribed as antibiotics, such as medications ...