Children at risk of antibiotic resistant infection - Children are increasingly at risk of contracting the methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (MRSA) from hospitals, according to latest...

Gentamicin - Don't just read the label watch the patient, too. ...

Animal antibiotics cause resistance in humans - A UK government committee has warned that giving antibiotics to farm animals has serious implications for human health. ...

Antibiotics: Doctors told to stop indiscriminate prescribing - UK health regulators have put a ban on the overuse of antibiotics. They are concerned that doctors are over-prescribing and inappropriately prescribin...

Finns act to reduce use of antibiotics - The Finnish health authorities may have a simple remedy to the "superbug" threat don't hand out so many antibiotics. ... ...

What are the dangers of life long use of antibiotics? - Q:What are the dangers of accepting the doctor's instruction to take an antibiotic (oxytetracyline 250 mg) forever? His point is that it is a very low...

Penicillin loses germ warfare - Penicillin is losing the fight against the killer bug pneumococcus, responsible for pneumonia, meningitis, sinusitis and otitis media (middle ear infe...

Rising antibiotic use: doctors blame their patients - Who is to blame for the rising inappropriate use of antibiotics? A new report suggests that doctors believe that, in many cases, the overprescribing o...