Sugary foods combined with antibiotic treatment can damage the gut microbiome in ways that could make people sick.

Antibiotics are designed to kill harmful bacteria and help the body recover from infection. But some antibiotics may also push bacteria to release tiny particles that can make inflammation worse.

Eating more sugar while taking antibiotics was linked to greater disruption of the gut microbiome and increased growth of potentially harmful bacteria. Researchers say temporarily cutting back on ...

Antibiotics are supposed to wipe out bacteria, yet the drugs can sometimes hand microbes an unexpected advantage. A new study from Rutgers Health shows that ciprofloxacin, a staple treatment for ...

People who underwent stem-cell transplantation and ate sugar-rich food had disrupted communities of gut microorganisms during ...

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Hello, this is Takahashi from the Health Academy editorial department.“You have some inflammation, so let’s calm that down first. I’ll prescribe you some antibiotics for now.”This is what a dentist ...

When bacteria are under antibiotic attack, it is not "every man for himself." Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and colleagues from collaborating institutions have discovered that bacterial ...

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the world's most alarming public health challenges because multidrug-resistant (MDR) gram-negative bacteria increasingly render even last-line antibiotics ...

Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to new research. The modified ribosomes have changes specifically in the regions where antibiotics latch on to and ...

New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different “shutdown modes,” not just the classic idea of dormancy. The researchers show that some cells enter ...

Shigella bacteria are becoming harder to treat as drug-resistant strains rise, and doctors warn Americans should be concerned ...