Drug resistance has become more commonplace and some drugs have been rendered useless by superbugs just a month after being made available, he said

Campaigners say the emergence of superbugs is the result of the heavy use of antibiotic medicines on farm animals, such as chickens, over decades.

Statistics revealing the number of cases of MRSA, MSSA and C. Difficile assigned to hospitals trusts have been published by the Government.

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Many are have adapted to resist a few drugs. Others are “superbugs” and are resistant to many, many drugs, including last-resort antibiotics.

Furthermore, "superbugs" could be created by the accumulation of these genes in one or several types of bacteria so that no antibiotic wo

Stealthy drug-evading bacteria with heightened virulence and ability to infect humans have turned up in chickens in India, scientists said, indicat

Though the nation’s white hospital rooms, damp gyms, and crowded prisons are acknowledged to be the major sources of antibiotic-resistant bacteria,

Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released “core elements” for implementing antibiotic stewardship programs in doctors’ offi

Each time patients take antibiotics they don’t need, they also contribute to the development of superbugs that are resistant to treatment with thes

We are living through exciting times of modern medicine where we can get treatment for many diseases which were considered incurable in past.

However, superbugs are already claiming victims and this is not going to stop if we don't act collectively.

The committees are the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) Relationship Stands Committee and the College of American Pathologists Histocompa

The campaign, now in its seventh year, is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiative.

It is estimated that the rise of superbugs - resistant to drugs - will cause up to ten million deaths a year by 2050.

As a child, when my brothers and I got sick, the doctor would give us antibiotics.

Investors in Phico Therapeutics at Babraham have put a further £3.5m into the company, which has spent nearly two decades working on a new treatmen

This can lead not just to antibiotics in food, but is a major factor driving the evolution of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

and targeting prevention efforts for superbugs.

However, misuse of antibiotics can lead to some bacteria becoming immune to the effects of antibiotics, stopping us getting better.

Rates of sepsis in the United States are on the rise, perhaps due to the increasing prevalence of drug-resistant superbugs, an aging population, an