The Taliban has maintained control of Afghanistan for five years. Mounting domestic pressures include poverty and refugee returns. Internal...

Candida auris, a deadly fungus, has spread across twenty-three states in the United States. This invasive yeast causes severe and sometimes...

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

Two women from the US have been infected with the drug-resistant strain of ringworm known as tinea. Experts say that the disease is highly ...

According to the study, quinolone-resistant strains accounted for more than 85% of S Typhi (the bacteria that causes Typhoid fever) in Bang...

Drug maker Cadila Healthcare (Zydus Cadila), on Thursday said its antimalarial drug ZY19489 (MMV253), currently in development together wit...

Anti-microbial resistance has been labelled by the United Nations as "one of the greatest threats we face as a global community."

Up to 80% of travellers returning from high-risk regions are colonised by MDR-GN bacteria.

The global costs, if we do not take action now, could be 10 million people dying every year by 2050, and a cumulative economic cost of arou...

The discovery could potentially make malaria treatment significantly more effective for the 3.2 billion people at risk.

The report confirms the findings of a Princeton University study in 2014 which said Indians consume the highest number of antibiotics in th...

Researchers have discovered that ethoxzolamide actually turns off the tuberculosis' ability to invade the immune system.

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

On the tail end of HIV surface protein, there is a sequence of amino acids that the virus uses to "punch into" and infect cells.

Scientists have discovered a "promising" new class of antibiotics that could treat drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis.

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

India has a major health challenge on its hands, figuring second on the list of countries with the largest concentration of people sufferin...