Antibiotics are a type of medication that destroys bacterial infections in humans and animals. They work by killing bacteria — or keeping the bacteria from growing and increasing in number ...

Taking antibiotics when they are not necessary may lead to antibiotic resistance – i.e. an infection where antibiotics can't help – which is bad for your personal health and bad for global health.

Tyson will once again use certain antibiotics in its chickens, eight years after it announced plans to ditch the drugs in some of its production and slapped a “no antibiotics ever” label on ...

Citing low chicken supplies, Chick-fil-A will back off its “no antibiotics ever” mantra and instead embrace a looser industry standard: “no antibiotics important to human medicine.” ...