Antibiotics

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Drugmakers that develop new antibiotics are set to benefit from longer market protection in Europe after the EU agreed Thursday to a wide-ranging reform of pharmaceutical rules seeking to boost innovation and tackle antimicrobial resistance. European governments and lawmakers reached an overnight deal on an overhaul…

Disrupting the chemical messages that oral bacteria use to coordinate growth may help prevent disease by keeping plaque communities in a healthier state. Like all living things, bacteria adapt in order to survive. Over time, many have become resistant to widely used antibiotics and disinfectants, creating growing challenges for healthcare…

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 48, December 2025. SignificanceKlebsiella pneumoniaeliver abscesses are serious infections that often relapse or require surgery, even when treated with appropriate antibiotics. In this study, we developed a mouse model and used advanced imaging techniques to investigate ...Read More

Dakar – As antimicrobial resistance (AMR) silently threatens global health, a Senegalese expert stands out as one of the continent’s most committed voices. Moving between lecture halls and fieldwork, Dr Oumar Bassoum turns challenges into opportunities to protect the  common good: preserving the effectiveness of antibiotics. Holding a PhD in…

Dakar – As antimicrobial resistance (AMR) silently threatens global health, a Senegalese expert stands out as one of the continent’s most committed voices. Moving between lecture halls and fieldwork, Dr Oumar Bassoum turns challenges into opportunities to protect the  common good: preserving the effectiveness of antibiotics. Holding a PhD in…

Mirage News 11 Nov 2025 9:07 pm AEDT Date Time The discovery of a new mechanism of resistance to common antibiotics could pave the way for improved treatments for harmful bacterial infections, a study suggests. Targeting this defence mechanism could aid efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR), one of the…

The proliferation of difficult-to-treat bacterial diseases represents a growing threat, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report. The report reveals that, between 2018 and 2023, antibiotic resistance increased by more than 40 percent in monitored pathogen-drug combinations, with an average annual increase of 5-15 percent.…

Prophylactic use of azithromycin saves vulnerable children’s lives, but could trigger antibiotic resistance...Read More

This week we had some terrifying news from the World Health Organization: Antibiotics are failing us. A growing number of bacterial infections aren’t responding to these medicines—including common ones that affect the blood, gut, and urinary tract. Get infected with one of these bugs, and there’s a fair chance antibiotics…