A doctor treating a premature baby has defended the decision not to give him antibiotics the day before he died.Two-month-old ...

Real-time imaging shows that bacterial resilience to antibiotics is not caused by a few ‘persisters’, but is a ...

There's currently no cure for dementia. Although some recently developed drugs show promise in slowing the progress of the ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study, researchers challenge the ...

Ben Condon, who was two months old, died at Bristol Children’s Hospital in April 2015 after developing a respiratory illness.

A new report has been released looking at the infection rate of Group A streptococcal, otherwise known as scarlet fever, this ...

First-line antibiotics for uncomplicated UTI remain more effective than fluoroquinolones and beta-lactams in a retrospective ...

Make your antibiotic medication as effective as possible by getting these answers before you leave the doctor's office or ...

Antibiotic resistance can develop to new antibiotics even before they reach the market, undermining their future ...

A report has issued advice to doctors to tell them to use antibiotics early when people get an infection because the results ...

Longer antibiotic courses showed no increased benefits or harms than shorter antibiotic courses in older adults, found a ...