A finger-prick blood test could help prevent overuse of antibiotics in people with a common lung condition. What’s more, the approach is safe for patients, according to a new British study. Flares of ...

If we get a bacterial infection, doctors use antibiotics to treat it. But sometimes people are infected by pathogens that are resistant to the effects of antibiotics, a growing problem worldwide. If ...

(Reuters Health) - Some nursing home facilities prescribe antibiotics more often than others, which is tied to increased health risks, even for residents who don’t receive the medications, according ...

A study of urine culturing in 600 Ontario nursing homes found that residents’ health characteristics are not the driver of antibiotic overuse. Rather, it’s unstewarded overscreening and ...

"Prescribing high-risk antibiotics to nursing home patients may be linked with higher likelihood of being colonized with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) or having MDRO-contaminated rooms," ...

Australian hospitals should avoid prescribing expensive broad-spectrum antibiotics for pneumonia to avoid the development of more drug-resistant super bugs, according to a University of Melbourne ...

Hospitals and nursing homes in California and Illinois are testing a surprisingly simple strategy to stop the dangerous, antibiotic-resistant superbugs that kill thousands of people each year: washing ...