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New antibiotic to curb dangerous gut bacterium with a low dose
While using lower antibiotic doses are generally known to promote resistance, a low dose EVG7 was found to effectively kill C. difficile making it...
WHO updates recommendations on use of antibiotics for COVID-19...
7 Aug 2025 11:30 AM ISTThe WHO said that as COVID-19 epidemiology and severity have changed, and as emergency measures have subsided, the evidence behind a number of...
Antibiotics from human use are contaminating rivers worldwide: Study
14 May 2025 2:26 PM ISTPublished in PNAS Nexus, the study is the first to estimate the scale of global river contamination from human antibiotics use.
Still a long way to go, poultry farmers warn authorities on curbing...
2 May 2025 7:00 AM ISTFeed and water safety were underscored as critical components in AMR prevention.
Study warns against surge in antibiotic prescribing in young adults
5 April 2025 5:19 PM ISTThe study based on an analysis of 15.7 million patient records, revealed that the most elderly patients in the sample were 31 per cent less likely...
Antibiotic use in first weeks of life may reduce efficacy of childhood...
5 April 2025 1:31 PM ISTResearchers from Flinders University in Australia explained that this is due to a decrease in the levels of Bifidobacterium — a bacterial species that...
Who's selling OTC antibiotics in Chennai?
16 Dec 2024 7:00 AM ISTEven as healthcare professionals are faced with challenges of the biggest human-made crisis – antimicrobial resistance, driven by the misuse and...
Study shows long-term use of antibiotics may raise Parkinson's disease...
2 Dec 2024 12:25 PM ISTTo validate the findings on Asians, researchers from the Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea examined 298,379 people aged 40 years and...