Urgent care clinics are handing out fistfuls of antibiotics, steroids and opioids for conditions these drugs won't help, a ...

The study of more than 22.4 million US urgent care visits found inappropriate prescriptions for antibiotics, glucocorticoids, ...

Substantial number of antibiotic, glucocorticoid, and opioid prescriptions were filled despite being deemed inappropriate ...

Ingredients of our daily diet - including caffeine - can influence the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. This has been ...

The strain was first identified nearly a decade ago in the Netherlands and Germany, and has since spread to at least nine ...

When we think about the side effects of medicines, we might think of nausea, fatigue or dizziness. But there's another, lesser-known risk that can have lasting—and sometimes permanent—consequences: ...

A leading expert voices highly cautious optimism over the very few steps taken today that could help tackle the threat to patients’ lives and their medical care from antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

A 30-day course of antibiotics after robot-assisted radical cystectomy appears to eliminate UTIs and reduce costs of care.

All probiotics are not created equal, according to new research from North Carolina State University. In a mouse model, ...

Patients widely received antibiotics with no record of seeing a doctor, a nationwide study found, despite recommendations that doctors physically screen patients to prevent unnecessary ...

Antibiotics in manure that seep into soil have been detected in carrots, lettuce, and green onions. Of course, many things could have caused her weight gain.