If you’ve ever raised a kid prone to ear infections, you are probably all too familiar with the “cillins”—penicillin, methicillin, amoxicillin, oxacillin. When my daughter would wake in the middle of ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis. In this Spotlight feature, we look at the use of antibiotics in animals and its consequences for human health, covering research presented ...

Intracameral antibiotic injections decreased the risk for postoperative endophthalmitis after cataract surgery by 22-fold when compared with standard topical antibiotic drops in a new ecological ...

Even without accounting for veterinary or pharmaceutical waste, human antibiotic use alone is pushing rivers past ecological tipping points, putting global water systems and health at risk.

Antibiotic resistance in bottlenose dolphins shows that up to 88% of pathogenic organisms in this species is resistant to one or more antibiotics. This finding offers very useful insights into the ...

It's a battle over the health of cattle versus humans. The Food and Drug Administration is moving towards approval of an antibiotic drug called Cefquinome for use in cows being shipped for slaughter, ...

Researchers at Clemson University have been investigating how antibiotic resistance can move between species, including from humans into animals. Infectious diseases that can jump species are called ...

According to researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, the antibiotics used to treat common bacterial infections, like pneumonia and sinusitis, may also be used to treat human diseases, like ...