The crucial drugs can have unintended consequences. Innovative therapies could shield the microbiome from their effects.

A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

How likely is flu-related pneumonia to happen to you? What are the symptoms to look out for when they can be similar to those ...

You probably think “antibiotic resistance” means that a bacterial infection can’t be cured by any antibiotics. But the FDA ...

No one loves feeling under the weather, but if you enjoy a soup like pastina soup you could be saying goodbye to that cold ...

Leaders of four state agencies on Friday launched a major five-year plan to work together with partners in public health, health care, agribusiness, environmental protection and other fields to ...

As well as feeling sick, vomiting and having diarrhoea, people with norovirus may also have a high temperature, a headache ...

President Trump’s mission to upend the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, has left lifesaving food and medicine stuck in ports and warehouses.

UCSF scientists are taking the first steps toward creating a new type of antibiotic that uses an unusual virus to defeat ...

The researchers theorise the protective effects of these drugs could be because they reduce inflammation, control infections ...

Eating GM food can change the genetic make-up of your digestive system and could put you at risk of infections that are resistant to antibiotics, experts said yesterday. A British study has ...