If you’ve ever raised a kid prone to ear infections, you are probably all too familiar with the “cillins”—penicillin, methicillin, amoxicillin, oxacillin. When my daughter would wake in the middle of ...

A new study has found that a highly antibiotic-resistant strain of the superbug MRSA -- methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- has emerged in livestock in the last 50 years, probably due to ...

Doctors document the dangerous systemic effects that followed a single injection.

A variety of veterinary and human antibiotics were found consistently in water sampling in rivers and other tributaries flowing into western Lake Erie, new research has found. That's a concern, as it ...

For almost seven decades, we've routinely fed antibiotics to the animals we eat. That's just a few years less than we've taken antibiotics ourselves. And for just about as long, it’s been clear that ...

London, June 28 (IANS) A highly antibiotic-resistant strain of the superbug methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, which emerged in pigs in the last 50 years, has the potential to ...