Between 2015 and 2022, child mortality rates fell by only 2 percent, down from about 4 percent between 2000 and 2015. But one surprising intervention — periodically distributing antibiotics ...

Treatment guidelines for children hospitalized for severe malnutrition include routine administration of antibiotics; however, there is no consensus as to whether antibiotics are indeed helpful in ...

New Delhi, Drugs to treat common infections in children and babies are no longer effective in large parts of the world, including India, due to high rates of antibiotic resistance, a study has found.