New antibiotics are crucial in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Assessing the effectiveness of new antibiotics requires standardised high-quality infection models, readily available to ...

Combining antibiotics with drugs that do not directly kill bacteria may be one option in fighting antibiotic resistance. The antibiotic minocycline blocks bacterial protein synthesis, but resistance ...

The Pharmacology courses are designed to give students a rigorous understanding of the principles of pharmacology in several contexts, ranging from the fundamentals of chemistry and biochemistry to ...

New research has been published that identifies positive steps towards a better understanding of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), specifically in hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP). Antimicrobial, or ...

Antibiotics start taking effect immediately, but you may not feel symptom relief for a few days. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections by either destroying cell walls or preventing reproduction. Some ...

Using antibiotics unnecessarily or excessively is known as antibiotic overuse. Some effects of overuse can include an increased risk of antibiotic-resistant infections and other antibiotic-related ...

Graham Cookson currently receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust, The National Institute for Health Research, The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, The Department for Health, The ...

Surprising links between antibiotics and the brain. Source: Iaremenko/iStock We like our stories neat, with good guys in white hats and bad guys in black, but nature scoffs at our binary plot lines.