Prior to the discovery of antibiotics, infectious diseases were rampant. Communicable diseases were the most common cause of death, and the average lifespan was about 47 years old. However, this ...

Antibiotic overuse doesn't just lead to drug-resistant superbugs, it may also permanently wipe out the body's good bacteria. Good bacteria in the gut help people in many ways, including helping ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are poised to become a major ... of Pennsylvania used a “search” algorithm to find dozens of potential antimicrobial peptides in the human body. SUBSCRIBE. LOG IN.

Antibiotic resistance is a serious global issue. It occurs when bacteria become immune to antibiotic treatments, making infections harder to treat. Overuse of antibiotics is a major cause. Proper use ...

Could that “just-in-case” antibiotic be doing more harm than good to your child’s long-term health? New research links early antibiotic overuse to allergies and even intellectual challenges. Before ...

Antibiotics are unintentionally altering the communities of microbes that live in and on our body, with serious implications to our health, a scientist says.

Simply put, the more antibiotics you use, the more your body normalizes them, and the faster resistance to them will emerge. When the drugs stop working, people can die of once-treatable ...

In fact, 90 percent of antibiotics that go into the body actually never get used and is just excreted through waste. So, if you're taking antibiotics and you pee, then most of the antibiotic dose ...

A recent study has shown that nanoplastics – plastic particles smaller than 0.001 millimeters – block the body's ability to absorb antibiotics normally, and may even lead to the growth of ...

Although antibiotics made the mice sicker, they were controlling the fungal infection in the kidneys just as well as the mice that hadn’t received antibiotics. So what was making them sick?

A team of engineers and biotechnologists at the University of Freiburg has for the first time shown in mammals that the concentration of antibiotics in the body can be determined using breath samples.