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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Dogs and cats can pass antibiotic-resistant bacteria to their owners, raising concerns that household pets could be contributing to the world's antibiotics crisis, a new study says. Cases of these ...

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 ...