A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers just proposed legislation that would address a pressing public health crisis ...

The report, titled “Bracing for Superbugs,” highlights the role of climate change and other environmental factors contributing to the rise of antimicrobial resistance. It was announced Tuesday ...

While researchers have been hard at work looking for new kinds of medicine to treat pathogens, they have been fighting a losing battle to drug-resistant bacteria. A growing concern in many parts ...

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Investors are now rightly taking aim at overuse in industrial farming and livestock production — which can fuel not only ...

More than 1 in 3 people with invasive infections, meaning ones that affect the blood, heart or brain, die, according to the ...

An antibiotic that could be used to treat one of the world's most drug-resistant superbugs has been discovered by AI and ...

Bacteria can rapidly evolve resistance to antibiotics by adapting special pumps to flush them out of their cells, according to new research. Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem of global ...

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Research finds that the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) from outpatient ...

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Jonathan Pearce, the chief executive of the charity Antibiotic Research UK, said the shift to remote GP consultations already appeared to be fuelling a rise in prescribing, and warned against any ...