Researchers have discovered and characterized at the atomic level a mechanism that enables bacterial pathogens—including ...

In patients with uncomplicated appendicitis, initial antibiotic treatment yielded a true recurrence rate of nearly 38% over 10 years. More than half of the patients treated with antibiotics avoided ...

Antibiotics (ABs) are among the most used pharmaceutical drugs worldwide, as they are currently the most effective medicines for the treatment of bacterial infections. An excessive use of these drugs, ...

Marina Joubert receives funding from The British Academy as a member of the "Just Transitions for AMR" global convening. Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause up to 10 million deaths each ...

Inside a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology late last year, scientists gave an AI system a new task: designing entirely new molecules for potential antibiotics from scratch. Within a day ...

A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC line) is a type of central line. A central line (also called a central venous catheter) is like an intravenous (IV) line. But it is much longer than a ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Why shouldn’t you use antibiotics for a cold? -- T.Y.A. ANSWER: There are two main reasons. The first is that antibiotics, which are effective against bacteria, are not effective ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new AI system called AMP-Diffusion is designing powerful antibiotics that fight resistant bacteria. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) ...

Antibiotics have revolutionized medicine, saving countless lives by treating previously fatal bacterial infections with ease. Yet today, their power is in serious jeopardy. Every year in the United ...