Meitheal Pharmaceuticals has gotten federal approval for a new kind of antibiotic for use on hospitalized patients with ...

Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a new class of antibiotics with potent activity against multi-drug resistant bacteria, and have shown that it cures bloodstream infections in mice. The ...

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Scientists have discovered a new class of compounds that uniquely combine direct antibiotic killing of pan drug-resistant bacterial pathogens with a simultaneous rapid immune response for combating ...

Antibiotics can cause constipation, although this side effect is uncommon. This may occur because antibiotics can disrupt the ...

According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), antibiotic-resistant bacterial or fungal strains infect a minimum of 2.8 million individuals each year in the U.S. – with an ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the world's most urgent public health threats. In the United States alone, tens of thousands of deaths result each year from drug-resistant strains of common bacteria ...