antibiotic resistance

There are few food fad movements that we support at ACSH. Organic food, for instance, is a total scam. So are most miracle diets and nutritional supplements. If you eat a relatively well-balanced diet, you're most likely going to be fine.

This is Antibiotic Awareness Week.

By James Leahy, University of South Florida

Spoiler: Stupid Alert...

Though the sciences of microbiology and public health have largely made infectious disease an afterthought for most people in the developed world, microbes have not gone away.

Promising work just published in Nature Medicine especially offers hope to chronically ill patients battling drug-resistant infections while most compromised with weakened im

The headlines are rampant lately about “a mysterious and deadly fungal infection..spreading across the globe” that identifies multidrug-resistant yeast, Candida auris, as a “new fungal superbug.” And, as is common with such alarming heade

By Ben Chan

How often do you hear of someone using their spouse’s antibiotic medication that was prescribed for a prior illness but not entirely if ever used? Or, a teen sharing her friend’s birth control pills?

Ah, our body’s microbiome, the bacteria living in symbiotic harmony in our gut, that newly discovered source of wellness, its mysteries only slowly being revealed. Our microbiome is an inner ecology of Planet Us.