As many as half of the antibiotics prescribed to outpatients in the United States are unnecessary. And many of those scripts come from doctors who aren’t sure whether a patient is infected with bacteria — and needs...
The spread of virulent, antibiotic-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae may be controllable through the use of competence-stimulating peptide (CSP) analogues, US researchers believe. Using a mouse model of S...
Sara Gorman explores some of the factors behind anti-vaccination movements. Last year, polio eradication efforts were severely compromised by a rash of killings by militants in Pakistan and Nigeria. Between December...