.Antibiotic resistance threatens to take us back to a time before penicillin when the majority of deaths were caused by infections. What are we doing to solve the crisis?.Since antibiotics were introduced to the world in the mid-20th century, deaths attributable to infections dropped

Around 67 percent of medicine retailers do not have knowledge of antimicrobial drugs and they cannot identify the antibiotics, finds a study by the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA).

Bangladesh is among the countries with the highest levels of antibiotic river pollution along with Kenya, Ghana, Pakistan and Nigeria, a study revealed yesterday.

Four more patients suffered extreme side effects from the antibiotics they were administered with through intravenous infusion at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Sunday night.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to take necessary steps to stop the sale of antibiotics without prescription from registered doctors.

Earlier this year, this paper published a report on the widespread use of meat and bone meal (MBM) in poultry feed which can cause

A government study has found various types of antibiotics in almost 50 percent poultry feed samples of 14 brands collected from four districts.

Superbugs will kill someone every three seconds by 2050 unless the world acts now, a hugely influential report says.

More than 6,000 deaths a year could be caused by a 30% fall in the effectiveness of antibiotics in the US, a report in The Lancet suggests.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota has found a three-way link among antibiotic use in infants, changes in the gut bacteria, and disease later in life.

Antibiotics are used to treat and prevent bacterial infections.