A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers just proposed legislation that would address a pressing public health crisis ...

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The report, titled “Bracing for Superbugs,” highlights the role of climate change and other environmental factors contributing to the rise of antimicrobial resistance. It was announced Tuesday ...

While researchers have been hard at work looking for new kinds of medicine to treat pathogens, they have been fighting a losing battle to drug-resistant bacteria. A growing concern in many parts ...

Investors are now rightly taking aim at overuse in industrial farming and livestock production — which can fuel not only ...

Pfizer Inc said on Thursday data from late-stage trials showed its experimental combination of antibiotics was effective in ...

Pfizer today announced positive findings from two phase 3 trials evaluating an investigational antibiotic combination in ...

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An antibiotic that could be used to treat one of the world's most drug-resistant superbugs has been discovered by AI and ...

More than 1 in 3 people with invasive infections, meaning ones that affect the blood, heart or brain, die, according to the ...

Our podcast on science and technology. This week, we explore the potential of bacteriophages—viruses that can destroy ...

Research finds that the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) from outpatient ...