Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from antibiotic

Typhoid-causing bacteria have become increasingly antibiotic resistant - study

Resistant strains have spread to other countries nearly 200 times since 1990

Wales Online

Antibiotic Makers Adopt Their Own Environmental Safeguard Standards

The AMR Industry Alliance, a life-sciences coalition set up to provide sustainable solutions to curb antimicrobial resistance (AMR), is adopting its standards limiting toxic emissions. The Alliance published its Antibiotic Manufacturing Standard: Minimizing the risk of developing antibiotic resistance and aquatic ecotoxicity in the environment resulting from manufacturing human antibiotics. The…

Benzinga

How cannabis-fed chickens may help cut Thai farmers’ antibiotic use

Scientists observed fewer cases of avian bronchitis and superior meat after chickens given cannabis

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Superbug-killing drugs for NHS patients to stop simple surgery becoming deadly

Routine operations could one day become deadly as bacteria become more resistant to antibiotics - but a world-first subscription deal announced in the UK could change this

Daily Mirror

Ocean plastic pollution could be source of new antibiotics, study suggests

Scientists say they could isolate five antibiotic-producing bacteria from ocean plastic

The Independent UK

Study aims to improve tests to predict antibiotic resistance

Earlier this year, a study estimated that antimicrobial resistance caused 1.27 million deaths in 2019.

The Independent UK

Drugmakers urged to give poorer nations access to more antibiotics

Antifungals also needed, says study, as drug resistance has increased faster than expected, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Bacteria with antibiotic resistant genes discovered in Antarctica, scientists say

A bacteria have been discovered in Antarctica with genes that give them natural antibiotic and antim

The Hindu

How can India deal with the challenge of anti-microbial resistance? An expert speaks

There are a number of factors that contribute to the complex challenge of antimicrobial resistance in India, including the irrational use of antibiotics and poor sanitation, says Dr Abdul Ghafur, calling for increased awareness and the involvement of policymakers and members of the public in coming together the tackle this…

The Hindu

Antibiotics can hurt your gut microbiome, leading to a deadly fungal infection — study

One of the risk factors for getting invasive candidiasis is antibiotics.

Inverse

Commentary: We’re losing the fight against superbugs, but there’s still hope

As parents, we inherently want to protect our children. We tell them stories with happy endings and reassure them that there aren’t monsters hiding under the bed.

Los Angeles Times

Friends star Mike Hagerty died after adverse reaction to an antibiotic

Mike Hagerty, who appeared in US sitcom Friends, fell into a coma and died after having an adverse reaction to an antibiotic

Daily Mirror

Antibiotics can lead to life-threatening fungal infection because of disruption to the gut microbiome – new study

Fungal infections kill around the same number of people each year as tuberculosis. They mostly take hold in people who are vulnerable because they have a defective immune system caused by an underlying disease, such as cancer, or a viral infection, such as HIV or COVID. Our new study shows…

The Conversation

Antibiotic resistance is threatening our health. Will bacterial infection send us back to the medical dark age?

Without new antibiotics, the world is on track to re-enter the medical dark ages by 2050, when a simple cut could kill 10 million people a year. So why are they so hard to find?

ABC News

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

Antibiotic use in Uganda is high: action is needed

Even before the COVID crisis, excessive use and misuse of lifesaving antibiotics had contributed to the emergence of resistant strains of disease-causing organisms. This has rendered many of the most powerful treatments in modern medicine ineffective.

ABC News

Antibiotic resistance detected in the food chain could have implications for human health, new study finds

Experts believe that antibiotic resistance will become a global problem in the long term, with a new study finding high rates of resistance in samples of salmon and beef.

Benzinga

Qualigen Takes Stake In NanoSynex To Gain Access To Next-Gen Diagnostic Platform

Qualigen Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:QLGN) has agreed to acquire a majority stake in NanoSynex Ltd, an Israeli-based developer of next-generation diagnostics technology. NanoSynex's Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) platform provides rapid, accurate, and personalized tests for bacterial infections to quickly match the correct antibiotics to treat a patient's particular infection. Antibiotic misuse and overuse have given…

The Conversation

Cut yourself and others some slack: we need more time to experiment and fail at work

In 1928 Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming, while studying the staphylococcus bacteria, noticed mould on his petri dishes inhibited its growth. He experimented, leading to the discovery of penicillin, the first antibiotic.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Pigs can pass deadly superbugs to people, study reveals

Research into C difficile found antibiotic resistance is growing as a result of overuse on farm stock

The Guardian - UK

Highly contagious marine epidemic rips through Caribbean’s coral reefs

Frustration among scientists as many islands, hard hit by Covid and hurricanes, struggle to fight stony coral tissue loss disease

Wales Online

Hospital drug blunder could have killed our baby son, say angry parents

Community nurse spotted 'potentially fatal' error that would have given Jadon 15 times the normal dose of antibiotic

Daily Mirror

'Doctors nearly killed my son after he was given 15 times recommended antibiotic dosage'

Gareth Jennings claims his son Jadon had been prescribed the antibiotic drug clindamycin after doctors at Royal Bolton hospital diagnosed him with a bug last Thursday

1 … 16 17 18 19

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

World Health Organization

University of Queensland

111 stories

Department of Agriculture

103 stories

Nottingham Trent University

98 stories

Royal Bolton Hospital

49 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.