Competitive Exam explainers | Science and Technology: Antimicrobial resistance is emerging as one of the world's gravest ...

Medical device makers should be aware of how FDA decides to regulate wound dressings containing drugs, since that regulation is likely to be broadly applied to all devices containing antimicrobial ...

Antimicrobial drugs comprise a broad range of agents that kill or inhibit the growth of microorganisms to treat or prevent infections, such as antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, and antiparasitics.

Drug discovery is the process of identifying and designing new chemical entities that can safely and effectively treat ...

Through trend analyses, this surveillance highlighted both the emergence and decline of AMR across diverse bacterial pathogens, helping inform which antibiotics may remain appropriate as first-line ...

Can prevention outpace antimicrobial resistance? As drug-resistant infections spread, scientists are looking beyond ...

In his recent doctoral thesis, defended at the University of Helsinki, Matej Zore investigated two drugs, fingolimod and etrasimod—initially developed to treat autoimmune diseases—for their potential ...

Natural products have historically played a central role in the development of antimicrobial drugs, with many clinically important antibiotics and ...

Antimicrobial agents, such as antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, and antiparasitics, are used to resist a wide range of infections. Common diseases, such as malaria, tuberculosis (TB), sexually ...

A method to screen a wide variety of drug candidates without laborious purification steps could advance the fight against drug-resistant bacteria. A method to screen a wide variety of drug candidates ...

Efforts to combat the increasing threat of drug-resistant bacteria are being assisted by a new approach for streamlining the search for antimicrobial drug candidates, pioneered by researchers at ...