A new report from the World Health Organization sounds the alarm on rising antibiotic resistance globally. The 2025 Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report shares prevalence estimates for 22 ...

Health experts, gathering at the U.N., have begun to shift their focus to try to provide access to basic drugs in countries where preventable deaths from infections occur too frequently. By Andrew ...

Once a medical miracle, antibiotics are now losing their power. Across the world, common infections are becoming harder—and sometimes impossible—to treat. This new review paints a sobering picture of ...

Bacteria have evolved to adapt to all of Earth's most extreme conditions, from scorching heat to temperatures well below zero ...

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is director-general of the World Health Organization. At the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Thursday, all countries approved a major new political declaration to ...

Despite major advances in oncology, drug resistance remains one of the principal obstacles to achieving durable responses and cure in cancer patients. Both ...

As fungi resistant to traditional treatments continue to spread around the globe, researchers from China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing have identified a bacterial compound that can kill ...

Bacterial infections are common and can impact various organs and tissues in the human body.² Clinicians typically prescribe antibiotics to treat these infections; however, many bacteria have ...

Antibiotics are widely considered one of the most important advances in the history of medicine. Their introduction into clinical practice during the 1940s marked a major milestone in the control of ...

Experts fear common types of fungi are 'adapting' to become resistant to lifesaving medications, fueling potential outbreaks. Candida albicans is a generally harmless fungus that lives on the surface ...