Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a major challenge in the field of global public health, driven by the pervasive misuse of antibiotics and the ...

A new experimental antibiotic can handily knock off one of the world’s most notoriously drug-resistant and deadly bacteria —in lab dishes and mice, at least. It does so with a never-before-seen method ...

Antimicrobial chemotherapy has many important uses in healthcare, including treating bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic infections. Side effects depend on the medication you receive, but they’re ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney and the Centenary Institute have discovered how a promising class of experimental antibiotics disrupts the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), paving the ...

The COVID pandemic has taught us that we shouldn't ignore warnings about dire health threats. And scientists have been warning about the dangers of antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, for decades. In ...

Ugandan health campaigner Regina Mariam Namata Kamoga has been named among eight Global Female Trailblazers recognised for efforts to confront antimicrobial resistance, a growing public health ...

Health experts, gathering at the U.N., have begun to shift their focus to try to provide access to basic drugs in countries where preventable deaths from infections occur too frequently. By Andrew ...