Antibiotic resistance is a critical and rapidly evolving field within microbiology and pharmacology. The increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria poses a significant threat to global ...

The antibiotic is also often given to children ... a staff internist and head of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. 'Patients should be ...

Despite the crucial need for new antibiotics, there has been little innovation in the past 20 years. According to a report from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, “more than 82% of all ...

Sep. 18, 2024 — Researchers found that a medicine called ferric carboxymaltose given in drip through the vein works faster and better than an iron tablet taken by mouth for the treatment of ...

Antibiotics work by killing bacteria. Since the first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered in the 1920s, hundreds have become available for use. (3) But even as more antibiotics have been ...

As cases of urinary tract infections grow, infections are also getting harder to treat with commonly used antibiotics. Contaminated meat, especially poultry, can spread E. coli bacteria that cause ...

difficile, but its ability to withstand antibiotics comes with downsides for the bacteria. The superbug Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, can cause dangerous gut infections. There are limited ...

And on that morning in July, de Kool, who works for STINAPA, was doing one of the few things that seems to work: smearing sick corals with antibiotics. Each bit of coral is a colony of animals ...

University of Otago provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. As the globe faces a rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria – making traditional antibiotics ineffective – specific ...

Bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics thrive in the face of drug treatment, which can lead to life threatening, often incurable infections. Other bacteria can exist in a pre-resistant state. To ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investors representing more than $13tn in combined assets have urged policymakers to help curb the spread ...