Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin ...

A new study on Lyme disease sheds light on the persistence of symptoms; another new study points to an antibiotic that may be ...

Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is often used for pneumonia, and its effect on ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Bacteria resistant to antibiotics are linked to millions of deaths per year, but researchers may have found a way to defeat ...

If you or your child caught a bacterial infection, you’d expect antibiotics to work. That’s been the case for around a ...

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

A new study shows that the simple application of computerized provider order entry prompts can reduce the use of unnecessary ...

A new study reveals that overusing antibiotics in children under 2 may raise the risk of asthma and food allergies later in ...

But antibiotics have an inherent caveat: When overused, bacteria can evolve resistance to these drugs. The World Health Organization estimated that these superbugs caused 1.27 million deaths ...

Exposure to antibiotics prior to age 2 is associated with a 24% increased risk of asthma and 33% increased risk of food allergies in later childhood, researchers reported recently in the Journal of ...

Typhoid fever is a particularly unpleasant bacterial infection that can spread throughout the body and, according to the NHS, ...