When hundreds of children in China were admitted into hospitals with respiratory illnesses including pneumonia, it was apprehended that a n...

ICMR has found the abuse of antimicrobials (antibiotics, antivirals or antifungals) to be the reason for this, which is says has led to wid...

Investors cheered the news, sending Wockhardt’s shares up by 5.7 per cent on the BSE on Thursday.

Studies have shown that around 50-60% of antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary.

CARB-X was formed two years ago as a public-private partnership to tackle the rising menace of antibiotic resistance.

“We’re creating a bullet against organisms that are taking out humanity. Wouldn’t it be nice to get a battleground to test it on that’s rea...

New York, Feb 19 (IANS) Sending an antibiotic-resistant superbug to a zero-gravity environment like the International Space Station (ISS) w...

The Pharmaceuticals Export Council of India (Pharmexcil) set up by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry under foreign trade policy on Thur...

British scientists have developed an antibiotic from human breast milk that can combat certain drug-resistant bacteria known as superbugs.

Tuberculosis continues to be a global pandemic, second only to AIDS as the greatest single-agent killer in the world.

Here's why drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) breeds freely in Mumbai: Patients don't get appropriate medication.

A deadly bacteria variant known as NDM-4, also called the super bug, has been found by the medical researchers Aligarh Muslim University.

The Centre for Disease Control (CDC), USA, believes that a single infectious organism, MRSA, kills more people in the US than AIDS.

Rajiv Modi, Chairman and managing director of Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd said "The VLP technology flu vaccine would be commericialised with...

Swine flu virus may be now resistant to key medicine Tamiflu, raising fears a new outbreak may be difficult to fight, warns Australian rese...

'It was unfair to name a superbug -- organisms that grow in nature in every country -- after India without any evidence that it originated ...

Some 77 cases of a multi-drug resistant "superbug" from India first reported in Britain in August have now been detected in 13 European cou...