• Antibiotics seem to reduce surgical site infections in people undergoing aortic or aortoiliac surgery. • Other interventions assessed appear to make little or no difference in reducing the incidence ...

Antibiotics are routinely given before or during many surgical procedures to prevent the development of an infection (known as antibiotic prophylaxis). This includes procedures to perform an abortion ...

A virulent strain of antibiotic-resistant ‘superbug’ bacteria that causes severe disease has been found circulating in a Malaysian hospital, a new study by academics has revealed. The threat ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved on Friday a new type of medicine for people with the rare bleeding disorder hemophilia. Current hemophilia treatments generally try to replace or spur the ...

Lariocidin hits drug-resistant bacteria where others fail — by hijacking the ribosome at a new site, bypassing defences, and opening the door to a new generation of antibiotics. Lariocidin, a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved GSK’s drug for a common type of urinary tract infection (UTI) in women and adolescent girls, one of five new approvals the British ...

March 26, 2025 — The FDA has approved a new medication to treat uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women and girls aged 12 or older. It is the first in a new class of oral antibiotics ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent problems facing humanity, but it’s been decades since we last developed a new class of these drugs. That could all be about to change thanks to ...

Blujepa, a so-called triazaacenaphthylene antibiotic, is now cleared to treat certain uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women and girls 12 years or older. Blujepa’s approval was based on ...

For the first time in nearly three decades, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new antibiotic for the treatment of urinary tract infections.

Recurrent UTIs have become a bigger problem as the bacteria that cause them have become more resistant to the antibiotics available to treat them. Blujepa is the first new type of oral antibiotic ...