Welcome to another installment of This Week at FDA, your weekly source for updates – big and small – on FDA, drug and medical ...

This article explains why soil remains a vital source of new antibiotics, showing how modern tools are reviving discovery ...

30-day adjusted risk ratios for short- versus long-course antibiotic therapy not significant for mortality, readmission, urgent visit ...

Programmable cell‑like particles seek out drug‑resistant bacteria, inject lethal payloads, and spare beneficial microbes.

The 2025 IDSA guidelines provide a comprehensive update on the management of cUTIs and reflect new evidence aiming to improve ...

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, said at a national meeting last week that he wouldn't give his young child antibiotics "unless he is on his deathbed or suffering." The comments, made at the ...

In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around ...

Deep inside a Romanian ice cave, locked away in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice, scientists have uncovered a bacterium with a startling secret: it’s resistant to many modern antibiotics. Despite ...

Antibiotic resistance is racing toward a global crisis, with “superbugs” projected to cause over 10 million deaths annually by 2050. Now, scientists at UC San Diego have unveiled a powerful new CRISPR ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

Bacteria have evolved to adapt to all of Earth's most extreme conditions, from scorching heat to temperatures well below zero. Ice caves are just one of the environments hosting a variety of ...

César de la Fuente is on a mission to combat antimicrobial resistance by looking at nature’s own solutions. When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente ...