Who On Antibiotics

A 16-year-old girl in the United Kingdom who was sent home with antibiotics by a dentist when a pea-sized lump appeared on her cheek has been diagnosed with a rare cancer after the mass grew to the size of a "tennis ball" within weeks.

It said that more than 60 per cent of Neisseria gonorrhoea isolates, a common sexually transmitted disease, have shown resistance to the common oral antibacterial ciprofloxacin.

Antibiotics that are currently in clinical development are insufficient to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report said.

The study was conducted on 76 healthy volunteers who were divided two groups - one that received placebo while the other was given doxycycline.

Antibiotics should only be used to prevent infections before and during surgery and not afterwards, new guidelines issued by World Health Organisation (WHO), which aim to save lives, cut costs and arrest the spread of superbugs, said today.

The tarantula sits in an open cage in the center of the room, dark and hairy and as big as a man's fist. Its eight thick legs, sharp fangs and large glassy eyes are enough to give anyone the creeps, let alone someone who has feared spiders all her life, like the woman standing at the far side of the room, looking distraught.

Experts are expressing concerns that antibiotics are losing their effectiveness at an increasing rate. Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most significant threats to patients' safety.

The 28-year-old Spaniard Rafael Nadal-- who has been on a 10-day antibiotic regime for an appendix which will have to be removed in the coming weeks -- recorded his first victory in three visits to Basel in just 71 minutes, beating Simone Bolelli

The spread of deadly superbugs that evade even the most powerful antibiotics is no longer a prediction but is happening right now across the world, United Nations officials said on Wednesday.

Pop star Pink, who is seven months pregnant with her first child, has taken to Twitter to ask fans for health advice.

A mystery pneumonia like illness which has claimed nine lives in three countries has triggered a rare warning of a "worldwide health threat". The disease is being spread by worldwide air travel. The sufferers are not responding to antibiotics or antivirals, and over 400 people have been affected by the outbreak.

A 16-year-old girl in the United Kingdom who was sent home with antibiotics by a dentist when a pea-sized lump appeared on her cheek has been diagnosed with a rare cancer after the mass grew to the size of a "tennis ball" within weeks.

It said that more than 60 per cent of Neisseria gonorrhoea isolates, a common sexually transmitted disease, have shown resistance to the common oral antibacterial ciprofloxacin.

Antibiotics that are currently in clinical development are insufficient to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report said.

The study was conducted on 76 healthy volunteers who were divided two groups - one that received placebo while the other was given doxycycline.

Antibiotics should only be used to prevent infections before and during surgery and not afterwards, new guidelines issued by World Health Organisation (WHO), which aim to save lives, cut costs and arrest the spread of superbugs, said today.

The tarantula sits in an open cage in the center of the room, dark and hairy and as big as a man's fist. Its eight thick legs, sharp fangs and large glassy eyes are enough to give anyone the creeps, let alone someone who has feared spiders all her life, like the woman standing at the far side of the room, looking distraught.

Experts are expressing concerns that antibiotics are losing their effectiveness at an increasing rate. Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most significant threats to patients' safety.

The 28-year-old Spaniard Rafael Nadal-- who has been on a 10-day antibiotic regime for an appendix which will have to be removed in the coming weeks -- recorded his first victory in three visits to Basel in just 71 minutes, beating Simone Bolelli

The spread of deadly superbugs that evade even the most powerful antibiotics is no longer a prediction but is happening right now across the world, United Nations officials said on Wednesday.

Pop star Pink, who is seven months pregnant with her first child, has taken to Twitter to ask fans for health advice.

A mystery pneumonia like illness which has claimed nine lives in three countries has triggered a rare warning of a "worldwide health threat". The disease is being spread by worldwide air travel. The sufferers are not responding to antibiotics or antivirals, and over 400 people have been affected by the outbreak.