Missing doses of your antibiotic can make them less effective, increase the risk of side effects, or lead to antibiotic resistance.

The effectiveness of antibiotic treatment depends on a person taking it correctly. Missing several doses of an antibiotic can result in ineffective treatment and potentially contribute to ...

You’ve almost certainly been prescribed antibiotics in your life. Maybe you had a nasty case of strep throat or needed to take precautions after a surgery. But even if you’re used to picking up a ...

The antibiotic EVG7, developed in Leiden, has proven capable of fighting the dangerous gut bacterium C. difficile with only a minimal dose. What's more, the bacterium is far less likely to return, a ...

Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea may be treated with a single-dose oral medication of zoliflodacin, according to the latest data from a phase 3 trial. 1 These findings could help tr ...

Cleveland Clinic researchers are working to improve the way we use evolutionary modeling to understand drug resistance. The study, published in Science Advances, uses a new type of evolutionary model ...