Superbugs

A team of scientists claim to have found a novel way to treat stubborn skin infections that don’t respond to…

Over the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social media: super gonorrhea. That’s…

Researchers in Australia are sounding the alarm over a foodborne and sexually transmitted disease that’s become…

In the wake of recent reports showing that antibiotic-resistant superbugs are on the rise, some scientists in the UK…

The U.S. and the world continue to lose ground against antibiotic resistance, according to a new report out this…

A common bacterial infection that causes stomach ulcers and cancer has gotten increasingly harder to fend off,…

Just in time for Halloween, doctors in France say they witnessed a real-life horror tale involving an…

In what might be a first, doctors in Germany think that a too-gentle washing machine helped spread a superbug to…

According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an outbreak of superbug salmonella…

Here’s a little morsel of horror to carry you through the weekend. Scientists at North Carolina State University say…

An aesthetically unpleasant but genuinely promising medical treatment—a fecal transplant—may come with more serious…

Those adorably tame goats and other animals you love to touch at your local petting zoo might not be so harmless…

A harrowing article in the New York Times this weekend has set plenty of people on edge. It details the rise of a…

For years now, scientists have sounded the alarm about a potential nightmare for astronauts on the International…

Your daily gob of toothpaste or spritz of body spray might be inadvertently mucking up your antibiotic treatment,…

In 2016, a mysterious illness spread inside the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center, the U.S.…

No place is safe from the scourge of superbugs, a new study suggests, not even space. According to the study, samples…

One of the few bastions of purity left in this forsaken world—puppies—might be inadvertently spreading a bacterial…

A common antidepressant, sold under the brand name Prozac, could be helping some bacteria build resistance to…

The bacteria that cause urinary tract infections are not only becoming more resistant to antibiotics, suggests a…