When people take antibiotics, some of the dose is excreted with urine and feces and ends up in our wastewater. The presence ...

Remnants of everything that humans ingest ends up in waste water, including medications that people may be taking, like ...

Picking up where traditional antibiotics are failing, two natural compounds have been shown effective in killing ...

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

Seven days of antibiotics was noninferior to 14 days for treating Gram-negative bloodstream infections, supporting shorter ...

As the globe faces a rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria—making traditional antibiotics ineffective—specific viruses could offer a solution. Viruses called bacteriophages, or phages, target bacteria ...

The analysis led by Katie Laird of De Montfort University and published in PLOS One uncovered that common home washing ...

Pesticides and antibiotics are linked inextricably in the looming crisis of human and ecosystem health. Both started out as ...