A new class of antibiotic has been found to be safe and effective in treating gonorrhea in late-stage trials, according to a new study published Monday in The Lancet. The drug, called gepotidacin, ...

A one-dose oral drug called zoliflodacin has proven highly effective against gonorrhoea in a major international trial. The ...

Early in 2025, scientists discovered a promising new antibiotic in a soil sample from a lab technician's backyard. The ...

Once seen as a lasting medical breakthrough, antibiotics are steadily losing their effectiveness. Around the world, ...

A new technique which slashes the time taken to diagnose microbial infections from days to minutes could help save lives and ...

But a new antibiotic from Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche could change the future of how we treat Gram-negative bacteria. Roche announced on Monday that its antibiotic zosurabalpin will enter phase ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking antibiotic discovery might finally tip the balance in the global fight against drug-resistant bacteria. Scientists have unveiled a rare molecule with a fresh way to stop dangerous ...

Health expert Dr. Kamini Walia explained how the misuse and overuse of antibiotics have led to drug-resistant typhoid, making ...

India faces a severe threat from rising antimicrobial resistance that endangers public health. Infectious disease experts Florian von Groote and Alison Helen Holmes warn that without coordinated ...

Infections caused by a drug-resistant bacteria once considered uncommon are surging in the United States, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study finds. These so-called "nightmare" ...

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 antibiotics made them ...