Medicine

A study found that many common antibiotics were less than 50% effective at treating serious bacterial infections in children and newborn babies in the Asia-Pacific.

Scientists say they've discovered CBD in a shrub that belongs to the same family as cannabis, although they've yet to publish the research.

A new tool may be able to predict the effectiveness of herbs used in traditional Chinese medicines — but what do experts think of its assessments?

A new antibody shot called Beyfortus was recently approved to protect babies from RSV, but it's in short supply this season.

Experts across public health, microbiology and biochemistry agree that we'll still have antibiotics in 50 years, but the drugs may take a different form than those we have today.

The CDC will soon recommend that some people take a "morning-after" antibiotic to lower their risk of STIs. But someday, it's possible that bacteria-killing viruses could do this without driving antibiotic resistance.

When exposed to low levels of disinfectants and antiseptics in the lab, a bacterium that sickens thousands in the U.S. every year becomes more tolerant to antibiotics.

GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic come with a higher risk of severe GI issues than a different common weight-loss drug does.

New research hints at how psychedelics trigger rapid, lasting change at the neuronal level.

The CDC issued a draft of its guidance for how and when the antibiotic doxycycline should be used as a preventive treatment for STIs, a regimen known as doxy-PEP.