The Latest Breaking News from Antibiotics

Surprising Link: Common Medicine Before Age 2 May Raise Risk Of Childhood Obesity

A medicine taken by millions of people, even young children to fight bacterial infections, may be quietly fueling obesity.

Medical Daily · Apr 28, 2025

Acne vaccine: Experimental shot for common skin condition reaches clinical trials. Here's what you need to know.

An experimental vaccine for acne could someday transform the way patients with the condition are treated, according to the company that developed the shot. However, it is still early days.

LiveScience · Apr 25, 2025

What Repeated Antibiotic Use Could Be Doing To Your Child's Health

Researchers now caution that repeated use of antibiotics, especially during early childhood, may come at a cost.

Medical Daily · Apr 17, 2025

Meet the teen duo that won this year’s Earth Prize Europe with their groundbreaking clean water tech

The European winners hope they can scale up their invention to tackle water pollution at its source.

Euronews · Apr 7, 2025

'It was clear that Tadej was the strongest' – Mathieu van der Poel makes no excuses in defeat to Pogačar at Tour of Flanders as team reveal pre-race illness

Alpecin-Deceuninck reveal that Dutchman was on antibiotics for three days in the run up to De Ronde

Cycling News · Apr 7, 2025

What is the deadly antibiotic-resistant superbug spreading in Malaysia? Could it be a global threat?

Report of a deadly superbug spreading in Malaysia has raised concern. This pathogen is everything that can disrupt the normal lives of human beings. It is antibiotic resistant, can cause severe disease and has a higher rate of circulation! Could it be a global threat?

The Times of India · Apr 4, 2025

Older people less likely to be given antibiotics, despite higher risk – study

Academics called on GPs to ‘better target’ antibiotics for those at highest need after analysing data on millions of prescriptions.

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2025

Newborns treated with antibiotics respond less well to vaccines, study shows

An Australian study found that babies with early exposure to antibiotics had lower levels of antibodies against jabs in later infancy

The Guardian - AU · Apr 2, 2025

Could antibiotics stop working? Yes – but the biggest danger isn’t prescription-happy GPs

To prevent a catastrophic failure of the drugs modern medicine relies on, look to animal farming in middle-income countries, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2025

New drug for lower back pain could be ‘a gamechanger’

Exclusive: early stage trials of drug that uses antibiotics finds benefits for people whose pain is caused by infection

The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2025