Our bodies are a constant battlefield between pathogens and our immune system. But beyond this battle, there’s a larger war being fought between humans and drug-resistant bacteria. When antibiotics ...

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 ...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered they can make antibiotics effective against drug resistance bacteria by disrupting the bacteria’s cell-to-cell communication ...

The new study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, revealed in high-resolution images and biochemical experiments ...

When bacteria develop resistance to front-line antibiotics, health care professionals lose their ability to treat deadly infections, leading to more than 35,000 deaths annually in the U.S. and more ...

Researchers have shown how and why the depletion of microbes in a newborn's gut by antibiotics can lead to lifelong respiratory allergies. The research team identified a specific cascade of events ...

Resistance to commonly used drugs rose over 40 percent in five years, a WHO report found. One-sixth of confirmed bacterial ...

The Conversation — 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 ...