Antibiotics kill disease-causing bacteria as well as the beneficial ones living in our gut, disturbing the health-maintaining microbiome. A new antibiotic specifically targets hard-to-kill ...

When people take antibiotics, some of the dose is excreted with urine and feces and ends up in our wastewater. The presence ...

Studies have found that nearly a quarter of drugs that aren’t normally prescribed as antibiotics, such as medications used to treat cancer, diabetes and depression, can kill bacteria at doses ...

Rhubarb could help battle deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs such as E. coli, suggests new research. Natural compounds ...

The discovery of an "Achilles' heel" in strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria may provide a better way to deal with this public health crisis. That is the conclusion of an international team of ...

Antibiotics include a range of powerful drugs that kill bacteria or slow their growth. They treat bacterial infections, not viruses. Learn more here.

And while antibiotics are meant to kill bacteria, recent research is has suggested that antibiotics can actually trigger changes in bacterial cells that promote their survival. This work, which ...

The focus on killing bacteria in a test tube is misguided for three reasons. First, antibiotics can save lives even if they kill only most bacteria, not all of them.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mariana Noto Guillen, UMass Chan Medical School (THE CONVERSATION) Human history ...

(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 ...