Scientists at Roche and Harvard University have discovered an entirely new class of antibiotic that can kill a highly drug-resistant ‘superbug’ with a mortality rate that can be upwards of 50% ...

That’s because the scientists are Brown undergraduates enrolled in an immersive course called Antibiotic Drug Discovery: Identifying Novel Soil Microbes to Combat Antibiotic Resistance. The class runs ...

The fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics includes ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin, among others. In another line of research, Dr. Zechiedrich and colleagues are investigating whether the drug ...

Antibiotic treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis found to be safe and effective in clinical trial by University of Sydney Credit: Vlada Karpovich from Pexels ...

Make your antibiotic medication as effective as possible by getting these answers before you leave the doctor's office or ...

The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date refers to the deadline set by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ...

A clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the oral antibiotic levofloxacin taken once-daily for six months substantially reduced the risk of developing drug ...

Despite international efforts to reduce the increasing threat of antibiotic resistance, multi-drug resistant bacteria ... For a long time, no new classes of antibiotics effective against Gram ...

Real-time imaging shows that bacterial resilience to antibiotics is not caused by a few ‘persisters’, but is a ...

One clone was resistant to all three antibiotic classes in a secondary screen ... remote locations with no known exposure to antibiotic drugs. The resistance proteins had low similarity to ...

Researchers from Indiana University (IU) and Makerere University in Uganda suggest that high uric acid concentrations ...