Prior to the discovery of antibiotics, infectious diseases were rampant. Communicable diseases were the most common cause of death, and the average lifespan was about 47 years old. However, this ...

Antibiotics like amoxicillin can increase your risk of developing a yeast infection. This happens because antibiotics can also kill off "good" bacteria that help keep yeast from overgrowing. Jump to ...

Georgetown University Medical Center scientists found using antibiotics did not impact the severity or duration of coughs. Even when a bacterial infection is to blame for the cough, the typical ...

Antibiotics are often taken casually, but repeated misuse is quietly changing how the body reacts to infections, making ...

Infections that are resistant to antibiotics are becoming more common around the world, and newborns are the most at risk. Because their immune systems are still developing, it's harder for them to ...

Q: I keep getting urinary tract infections (UTIs), and antibiotics don't seem to work like they used to. What's going on? A: That's a common frustration. UTIs are on the rise, and they're becoming ...

Zuckerman is president of the National Center for Health Research and a former congressional investigator on FDA approval standards. Powers is professor of clinical medicine at George Washington ...

Every winter, use of antibiotics surges as the public battle’s colds, coughs and other bugs. But are antibiotics always ...

New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As I head into my 25th year of working as a clinical infectious diseases pharmacist, one of the most important ...