A simple course of antibiotics could relieve chronic back pain for up to 40% of sufferers, scientists claim. Researchers have demonstrated a link b...

News of the thousands of sheep that were lost in last week's snow drifts has given us an insight into sheep farming. Warnings were issued several days...

If we are concerned about the over-use of antibiotics in human medicine then alarm bells should sound louder still when it comes to their use in intensive farming.

The original doom and gloom merchants touting a coming apocalypse were religious seers. Nowadays, though, faith-based threats of calamity tend to be...

Patients have been urged not to request antibiotics for coughs and colds due to an increasing resistance to treatments in the population. It is imp...

Drug-resistant cases of Tuberculosis (TB) are on the rise in the UK, figures suggest. The number of cases of the infectious disease which could not...

Urgent action must be taken to prevent millions of people across the world running out of treatment options for gonorrhoea, warns the World Health Or...

Have you got food poisoning? Forget asking your GP for antibiotics, as scientists reckon garlic is not only great at fighting vampires – it also bea...

American researchers have discovered that a germ strain found in E. coli, which causes painful urinary infections in women, could come from chickens. ...

Antibiotics could soon become ineffective, making conditions harder to treat and minor ailments potentially fatal, the head of the World Health Organi...

Penicillin doses for children need to be reviewed to take account of the fact youngsters are getting heavier, experts have said. Dos...