Using a mathematical model, researchers found that good hygiene can reduce the harmful effects of antibiotic use.
While RSV can become severe for any child, it poses a particularly serious threat for the youngest babies and for high-risk children.
The US currently has only one antibiotic available to treat gonorrhea – and it’s becoming less effective.
Prescription opiods, stimulants such as those used to treat ADHD and the ingredients found in sexual dysfunction drugs like Viagra are some of the drugs that are being marketed to US consumers.
Albert Alexander was the first known person treated with penicillin. While his ultimately fatal case is well known in medical histories, the cause of his illness has been misattributed for decades.
The production and release of synthetic chemicals worldwide is destabilising the Earth system.
If no action is taken to address antibiotic resistance, infections from multidrug-resistant bacteria could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050.
As the world has focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, other microbial foes are waging war on humans. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a growing threat. But viruses may defeat them.
Many patients without a diagnosis of Lyme disease report a constellation of symptoms, sometimes for years. Does chronic Lyme disease exist?
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