Once seen as a lasting medical breakthrough, antibiotics are steadily losing their effectiveness. Around the world, ...

Vancomycin resistance mutations enable bacteria to grow in the presence of vancomycin, but they do so at a cost. Vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA) strains grow more slowly and will often lose ...

Once a medical miracle, antibiotics are now losing their power. Across the world, common infections are becoming harder-and sometimes impossible-to treat.

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

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

UTIs are caused by bacteria like E. coli. But some infections are resistant to antibiotics. (Science Photo Library via Getty Images) Mo Carrier has dealt with recurrent urinary tract infections, ...

JNU study finds high levels of airborne antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Delhi’s winter pollution, raising public health ...

A one-dose oral drug called zoliflodacin has proven highly effective against gonorrhoea in a major international trial. The ...

Missing doses of your antibiotic can make them less effective, increase the risk of side effects, or lead to antibiotic resistance.

As climate change accelerates the melting of glaciers around the world, scientists are warning of a little-known risk flowing downstream with the ...

The study reveals that environmental stressors do not merely kill bacteria; they can also prime surviving cells to take up resistance genes more efficiently, raising concerns about how ...