Clinical trials reveal promising alternatives to highly toxic tuberculosis drug
The drugs, sutezolid and delpazolid, have demonstrated strong antimicrobial activity and a notably better safety profile compared to linezolid, with…
The drugs, sutezolid and delpazolid, have demonstrated strong antimicrobial activity and a notably better safety profile compared to linezolid, with…
People who have survived cancer as children are at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, even decades after their diagnosis….
Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet – in the fight against antibiotic resistance….
Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, a University of Minnesota research team demonstrated that measuring SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater continues to…
Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility…
Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on…
There were over 1.5 million “missing Americans” in 2022 and 2023, deaths that would have been averted if US mortality…
WEHI scientists have uncovered a promising new way to enhance the effectiveness of vaccines by tapping into the potential of…
Patients suffering from long COVID may exhibit persistent inflammation in the heart and lungs for up to a year following…
By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly…
Unvaccinated children and adolescents were up to 20 times more likely to develop long COVID than their vaccinated peers, according…
Antibiotic resistance tends to stabilize over time, according to a study published April 3, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS…
COVID infection has been linked to higher risk of autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes. But why…
Among 289 million adults in 18 European countries, more than 16 million years of life were lost from 2020 through…
A groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications has revealed novel insights into bacterial resistance and offers a promising strategy for…
An advanced type of MRI uncovers significant lung abnormalities in children and adolescents with long COVID, according to a new…
Paxlovid does not significantly reduce COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality among vaccinated older adults, according to new UCLA-led research. The study…
Researchers have gained valuable insight into the development of prion diseases of the brain. Protein aggregation is typical of various…
By analysing millions of viral genome sequences from around the world, a team of scientists, led by the Peter Doherty…
Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system…
Ebola is a deadly hemorrhagic disease caused by a virus that is endemic in parts of East-Central and West Africa….
Research from Radboud university medical center shows that the lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on people’s…
Superbugs, bacteria that are immune to multiple antibiotics, pose a great challenge to modern medicine. Researchers from the B CUBE…
Soil plays a much bigger role in the spread of antibiotic resistance than one might imagine. Surprisingly, the ground beneath…
Scientific experts from 13 Western European countries have recently completed a review of key lessons learned from the way the…
Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to research published today in Nature Communications. The subtle…
A recent study in JAMA Network Open sheds light on how school attendance influences the spread of infectious diseases, using COVID-19 as a…
Bacteria frequently encounter adverse environmental conditions, such as nutrient scarcity and antibiotic exposure, which can induce DNA damage. Efficient DNA…
At this moment, the world has few tools to combat deadly filoviruses, such as Ebola and Marburg viruses. The only…
Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed an AI-based tool to sift through electronic health records to help clinicians identify…