Doctors have long been warned to go easy on antibiotics and sulfa drugs. When used with routine frequency, such germ killers may defeat their own purpose by leading to ever more resistant germs. Now ...
Bacteriophages (blue) infecting a bacterium. (Nemes Laszlo/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers have made a ...
See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Diving into a public pool this summer? You might be plunging into a petri dish. While chlorine is the go-to germ killer ...
The American Association for Cancer Research's latest Cancer Progress Report highlights the risk posed by several viral and bacterial threats, including HPV. Reading time 3 minutes Some of the worst ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bacteria live on everyone's skin, and new research shows some friendly germs produce natural antibiotics that ward off their disease-causing cousins. Now scientists are mixing the ...
Decades of reliance on the antibiotic rifampicin have fueled the rise of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). But ...
Researchers in Finland have found evidence that the plaque found in our arteries can contain bacteria that could set off a heart attack under the right circumstances. Reading time 3 minutes Germs ...