Browsing: Antibiotics

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 16 March 2026 Microbial diversity loss seen after a course of some commonly prescribed antibiotics can persist for years.

Recent coverage of the pipeline of new antibiotics (Pipeline of new drugs to fight superbugs is ‘worryingly thin’, experts warn, 11 March) is a timely reminder…

Antibiotics are designed to wipe out infection-causing bacteria, but even a single course can leave a lasting mark on the gut microbiome, according to a new…

During her tenure as director general of the World Health Organization, Dr Margaret Chan used to say that all of the “easy” antibiotics had already been found.…

The first new treatments for gonorrhoea in decades could be a “huge turning point” in efforts to combat the rise of superbug strains of the bacteria,…

Credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via GettyResearchers are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to help design the next generation of antibiotics to combat rising antimicrobial resistance. In minutes,…

September 24, 20253 min readInfections of Drug-Resistant ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Are Surging in HospitalsThe infection rate of one type of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bacteria has risen by more…

In 1954, just a few years after the widespread introduction of antibiotics, doctors were already aware of the problem of resistance. Natural selection meant that using…

Superbugs could cause millions more people to die worldwide and cost the global economy just under $2tn a year by 2050, modelling shows.A UK government-funded study…