The Latest Breaking News from Antibiotics

Over one million people died globally from antibiotic-resistant infections in 2019

Warning: This story contains graphic images. Tracey Carse had to go to A&E and ended up on antibiotics for a month

What Candida auris is, how it is spreading, and how worried you should be.

In late March 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlighted the threat posed by a rapidly spreading fungus called Candida auris that is causing infections and deaths among hospital patients across the country. The unexpected rise of this recently discovered pathogen is part of a larger trend…

A new design for ear tubes could make them safer and more effective while lowering antibiotic doses for patients.

Appendicitis refers to the inflammation of a small structure in the gastrointestinal tract. The condition can lead to dangerous complications.

Experts across the world are determined to slow down the rise in AMR, which is partly fuelled by unnecessary use of antibiotics.

The Vatican says Pope Francis has spent his second night in a Rome hospital serenely as he receives antibiotics intravenously to treat bronchitis

Pope Francis has seen a marked improvement in his health after receiving antibiotics for a bronchitis infection, the Vatican said on Thursday, a day after the pope was hospitalised with breathing difficulties.

The mum has lived in the three-bed property in Whitstable for seven years and says she has experienced serious problems with mould for the entirety of that time

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is in good health after being diagnosed with mild pneumonia, is responding well to antibiotics and should travel to China on Sunday as previously expected, his doctor, Roberto Kalil, told Reuters on Friday.