When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a growing global health crisis, progressively undermining the efficacy of traditional antimicrobial therapies. The ...

Antibiotic resistance is often framed as a hospital problem, but a growing body of evidence shows that the environment plays an equally critical role in the global spread of drug resistant bacteria.

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have uncovered how a high-risk class of genetic vectors can efficiently spread antibiotic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are fighting back against antibiotic resistance with new strategies and tools. wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus ...

André O. Hudson, PhD. receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Imagine going to the hospital for a bacterial ear infection and hearing your doctor ...

Imagine going to the hospital for a bacterial ear infection and hearing your doctor say, "We're out of options." It may sound dramatic, but antibiotic resistance is pushing that scenario closer to ...

Balasegaram is executive director of the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership. No matter how carefully we use the antibiotics we have, drug resistant infections will continue to gain ...

Drug-resistant gonorrhoea is on the rise worldwide, but a new antibiotic could buy us more time before the emergence of completely untreatable strains of the bacteria, which is known to potentially ...

Antibiotics have long been the go-to treatment for various infections. Still, almost as soon as the treatment was discovered in 1945, widespread use led to the rise of a new problem: antibiotic ...

Hi, it’s Karoline in Singapore. The World Health Organization has released a new report on antibiotic resistance — and it’s grim. But before I get into the details... Let’s start with the basics: ...