New antibiotics are crucial in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Assessing the effectiveness of new antibiotics requires standardised high-quality infection models, readily available to ...

Each year in the United States, more than 30 million people suffer from sinus infections, and most end up getting treated with antibiotic medications. In fact, a new study found that more than Eighty ...

Purpose. The chemistry, pharmacology, antimicrobial activity, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, efficacy and safety in humans, and formulary considerations of doripenem are reviewed. Summary.

Antibiotic treatment disrupts the balance of beneficial and harmful bacteria in a person's gut. That disruption can lead to the overgrowth of fungal species in the gut mycobiota, including the common ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced a new partnership with Firstline, a clinical decision support platform, to deliver antimicrobial guidance to clinicians via an app. Antimicrobial ...

Painkillers we often trust — ibuprofen and acetaminophen — may be quietly accelerating one of the world’s greatest health crises: antibiotic resistance. Researchers discovered that these drugs not ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have developed a new small molecule that can suppress the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria and make resistant bacteria more susceptible to ...

Dear Doctor: A new study said that prolonged antibiotic use is tied to colon polyps. But "prolonged" meant "two weeks or more." I had a couple of bacterial infections in a six-month timespan. How ...

Some antibiotics are concerning and should be avoided during pregnancy, such as doxycycline and Bactrim, both used for treating pneumonia, Lyme disease and urinary tract infections. But many more ...