LONDON/LOS ANGELES - Fifty four large investors managing 1 trillion pounds ($1.41 trillion) in assets have launched a campaign to curb the use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry used by ten large ...

In the antibiotics group, 40% had surgery to remove their appendix by 1 year, which rose to 46% by year 2, reported David Flum, MD, MPH, of the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues.

Millions of Americans have at some point in their lives gotten a long course of antibiotics to treat a bacterial infection. But according to new recommendations from a major U.S. doctors' group, some ...

In patients with uncomplicated appendicitis, initial antibiotic treatment yielded a true recurrence rate of nearly 38% over 10 years. More than half of the patients treated with antibiotics avoided ...

Imagine going to the hospital for a bacterial ear infection and hearing your doctor say, “We’re out of options.” It may sound ...

The antiseptic methenamine hippurate (MH) is known to sterilise urine and has been suggested of use to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs), but firm evidence has so far been lacking. Now ...