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

Acne treatment: laser treatment may not work after all - Most teenagers get acne to some extent and many of those treat it with a topical cream But if the acne is especially severe a few have gone on to...

Ear ache: no antibiotics - Two independent studies provide a further nail in the coffin to treatment of childhood earache with antibiotics. ...

Drug resistant strain of hiv beats antiviral drugs - A leading researcher claims the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is fighting back against antiviral drugs with the emergence of new drug resistant s...

Antibiotics are ‘useless’ against ulcer bug - Medicine has recognised the Helicobacter pylori bug as the cause of peptic ulcers - but is becoming increasingly powerless to treat it as its resistan...

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...

Antibiotics in the environment - Genetically modified organisms, animals who either eat GM food or who are given growth hormones or antibiotics to treat the diseases inherent in high...

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...