Antibiotics Turned This Woman’s Limbs Into an Unsettling Horrorshow
A woman’s skin care treatment inadvertently turned into its own nightmare. A recent case report describes how she…
Smart wound dressing delivers antibiotics to speed up healing
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Biomedical engineers…
Meningitis: Cases rise to 20 as health officials deal with ‘explosive’ outbreak
Five new cases of meningitis have been reported in Kent, taking the total number being investigated by health…
Neanderthals May Have Used Birch Tar as Natural Antibiotic
New experiments show that tar made from birch bark — long known as a tool adhesive — can…
Combinations of colistin and bacteriocins prevent the selection of colistin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii
Gigante, V. et al. Multi-year analysis of the global preclinical antibacterial pipeline: trends and gaps. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother.…
Mucosal Vaccine Clears C. diff in Preclinical Study
Credit: KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images Researchers at Vanderbilt Health say they have developed a novel vaccine that…
Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Strain Found Preserved in 5,000-Year-Old Cave Ice
Scientists have isolated a new strain of the Psychrobacter cryohalolentis species from 5,000-year-old ice from Scarisoara Ice Cave…
Researchers discover 5,000-year-old bacteria resistant to modern antibiotics
Frozen bacteria kept for 5,000 years in an underground cave have been found to be resistant to modern…
Device Suggests Correct Antibiotic in 36 Minutes
If new research holds up, doctors may be able to get lab-style answers on pathogens before they’ve…
Large-scale testing of antimicrobial lethality at single-cell resolution predicts mycobacterial infection outcomes
Sample collection We used the Mycobacterium abscessus laboratory strain ATCC-19977, the avirulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Ra and the…
Which European countries use the most antibiotics?
Health experts have called on Europe to curb its reliance on antibiotics as the threat of drug resistance…
Why you shouldn’t skip your medication over the holidays
Many people are officially out of office, and while December is filled with lots of festivities and travelling,…