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Thyme leads poultry herb research, while evidence on antimicrobial resistance remains limited

A scoping review of 38 experimental studies found repeated positive signals for thyme, rosemary and peppermint on growth performance and gut microbiota, but heterogeneous protocols...

The Sunday Edition: Antibiotics

We have reached a point where there are very few treatment alternatives left for some bacterial infections – including some caused by foodborne bacteria.

Common supplements rival antibiotics for severe gum disease

Omega-3 and low-dose aspirin matched the effectiveness of antibiotics in a year-long study of patients with severe gum disease, with both approaches helping about 58% reach the tre...

The Antibiotics Exist —The System Cannot Deliver Them

This is not a discovery problem. It is a market entry and access problem, and it is far more tractable than the pipeline crisis we spend most of our attention on. The post The Anti...

Novel Antimicrobial Peptide Inhibits Foodborne Pathogens, Delays Milk Spoilage

Postbiotin-E8, derived from Lacticaseibacillus, demonstrated antibacterial and antibiofilm activity against several foodborne pathogens, as well as the ability to extend the freshn...

On Antibiotics? Eating Less Sugar Might Shield Your Microbiome

FRIDAY, Oct. 2, 2026 — Many people understand that antibiotics' bacteria-killing properties can disrupt the gut's healthy microbiome, even as the drugs treat illness. Now, resear...

Ancient Peptides Resurrected from Lactoferrin’s Evolutionary Past Could Point to New Antibiotics

Scientists working their way back through millions of years of the evolutionary past of mammalian lactoferrin reconstructed extinct peptides, some of which in laboratory were more...

Dead Probiotic Cells Show Promise for Healing Infected Burn Wounds in Mice

A new mouse study shows that non-viable probiotic cells, or paraprobiotics, can suppress bacterial virulence factors and shift infected burn wounds from destructive inflammation to...

Prophylactic oral antibiotics may increase infection risk

Patients who received prophylactic oral antibiotics after aseptic revision total hip arthroplasty had higher rates of infection and wound complications, according to results.“Presc...

Appalling medical treatment this morning

Ancient_Mariner: but because antibiotics simply won’t work any more Yup. Currently on third antibiotic for E.Coli infection that is supposed to be susceptible to these particul...

‘Must I Take All My Antibiotics?’ Why Infectious Disease Experts Are Rethinking This Longstanding Rule

Infectious disease experts are reconsidering the traditional advice to always finish every antibiotic dose, as research explores when shorter courses may be equally effective while...

Antibiotics for sinusitis without a real diagnosis [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Most people who get antibiotics for a sinus infection never needed them, and the real problem goes...

NZ’s antibiotic overuse has a long and risky tail

Plant Compound Calein C Blocks Key Bacterial Antioxidant Enzyme, Study Finds

A small molecule extracted from a Brazilian wildflower has emerged as a surprising new weapon in the fight against antibiotic resistance. In a study published in Applied Microbiolo...

If a global plague outbreak begins, the world could run through critical antibiotics far faster than supplies can be rep...

WHO notes that some traditional plague antibiotics are becoming less available worldwide https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK571130/ WHO’s plague guidelines specifically note tha...

AI Might Have Found the Next Generation of Antibiotics

Bacteria are evolving, and our antibiotics aren't keeping up. But Ian says artificial intelligence might have found a new way to fight back.

Extended oral antibiotics may not reduce subsequent infection

Results showed extended oral antibiotic therapy may not reduce the risk for subsequent infection after two-stage reimplantation for total knee arthroplasty.“Future studies or the n...

Bacteria reinvent their weapons through selection, chance and gene swapping

Many of the most potent antibiotics originate from bacteria. A large proportion belong to a class of compounds known as nonribosomal peptides (NRP). They are produced by large bact...

Why You Should Avoid Overdoing It On Sugar When You're On Antibiotics

Antibiotics are some of the most prescribed drugs around the world – and while they’re handy for fighting a whole host of bacterial infections, anyone who’s been on them will know...

Extended oral antibiotics on PJI risk after aseptic revision TKA

Extended oral antibiotic prophylaxis may not reduce odds of periprosthetic joint infection after aseptic revision total knee arthroplasty out to 5 years.“Utilization of extended or...

What the Dutch are getting right: antibiotics in the Netherlands

Ah, the Netherlands. A land of paracetamol-prescribing physicians who baulk at the mere notion of giving you antibiotics for, well, anything. As a newcomer to the Netherlands, that...

Plant-Powered Nanoparticles Strip MRSA of Its Adhesive Weapons

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, better known as MRSA, remains one of the most formidable adversaries in modern medicine, killing more than 100,000 people each year and...

A unified framework for potency-oriented AMP discovery via multi-modal learning and guided sequence synthesis

by Wenyu Zhang, Yizheng Wang, Yixiao Zhai, Pinglu Zhang, Yijie Ding, Quan Zou The rapid emergence of drug-resistant pathogens poses a critical threat to global health. With tradit...

Antimicrobial Violet-Blue Light Shows Promise for Reducing Drug-Resistant Campylobacter on Poultry

At the highest tested dose, every isolate, even those exhibiting antimicrobial resistance (AMR), underwent at least a 2-log reduction in viable cells. Modeling suggested that such...