Across the world, there are reports of shortages of common antibiotics. Ben Hargreaves examines why these shortages are happening and what is being done in the background to return supply to normal.
Using one of the most common antibiotics, called tetracycline, researchers in Sweden, Germany and Hungary, created a computer model to see how the medication interacted with bits of plastic that ...
Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to new research. The modified ribosomes have changes specifically in the regions where antibiotics latch on to and ...
But a new study says treating appendicitis with antibiotics, rather than surgery, is the best way to address most cases.