The Latest Breaking News from Antibiotics

A report into the treatment of five-year-old Yusuf Mahmud Nazir has found an admission to Rotherham Hospital ‘was not clinically required’.

About 6% of people in the UK are wrongly labelled on their medical records as being allergic to penicillin, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has warned.

Scientists have discovered an unexpected impact of some antibiotics on some bacteria: the medications occasionally help bacteria by extending their life. Read further on Dynamite News:

Until now it had been thought that antibiotics kill bacteria or stop them growing.

Antimicrobial resistance – the ability of microorganisms to resist drugs that have been developed to control them – is a severe problem in African countries. The continent has the highest global burden of antimicrobial-resistant infections, with 114.8 deaths per 100,000 people.

Medical research has brought slow but significant changes to disease diagnostics, drugs, and surgery. Disruptive medical inventions have converted some "surgical" diseases to medical ones, reducing the need for surgery. Examples include polio vaccine, antibiotics for gastric ulcers, and Ponsetti plaster casts for club foot. We hope for more such…

Deadly superbugs are unlikely to develop resistance to a new antibiotic produced by bacteria, scientists say.

We urgently need new antibiotics to combat bacteria that become increasingly resistant to most clinically used antibiotics.

Scientists say antibiotic resistance could plunge us back to the dark days before penicillin.