The true story of how penicillin was discovered from mold, exploring the scientific breakthrough, its impact on medicine, and ...

Using robots and click chemistry, scientists built potential active ingredients for future antibiotics that contain metal. An ...

There is hardly an adult American who at some point hasn’t needed antibiotics — for bronchitis or a urinary tract infection, ...

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing antibiotic discovery, potentially tackling antibiotic-resistant bacteria and ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

The pathogen that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is notorious for its ability to develop drug resistance. But now there are two more treatment options. In December, the U.S. Food ...

Antibiotics can help treat certain types of colitis, such as infectious colitis. They may also help manage complications of other types of colitis. While more research is necessary, antibiotics may ...

Endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand, the kākāpō is among the world’s rarest bird species with a current population of less than 250 individuals. As part of ongoing research efforts to support the ...

Bloodletting was used as a medical therapy for over 3,000 years. It originated in Egypt in 1000 B.C. and was used until the middle of the 20th century. Medical texts from antiquity all the way up ...

In the modern age, when we think of surgery, we think of doctors working in sterile environments using finely crafted tools on an anesthetised patient. That was not always the case. Early surgical ...

GENEVA, Oct 13 (Reuters) - One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections are resistant to antibiotic treatments, the World Health Organization said on Monday, calling for the medicines to be ...