DEAR DR. ROACH:As a 90-year-old man in mostly good health, I have been taking one Bactrim (sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim) pill per day for several years now ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 78-year-old male in fairly good health. I recently ...

Sulfa antibiotics were first used in the 1930s. Penicillin was discovered in 1928 and first used as a drug in the early 1940s. This class of drugs revolutionized the practice of medicine, and ...

Computer-generated images of a crucial anthrax bacterium enzyme are helping to solve the mystery of how slight mutations in the shape of this protein can make it resistant to the antibiotics called ...

Just when the sulfa drugs, penicillin and the other antibiotics seemed to be sweeping most of the bacterial diseases before them, a dark thunderhead of rumor appeared on the horizon—the germs were ...

, director of both the divisions of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and obstetrics at MetroHealth Medical Center. "Women who have infections that need antibiotics should receive appropriate treatment." Women ...

You can now chew your sore throat away. For septic sore throat, tonsillitis, mouth infections and throat abscesses, White Laboratories have developed a greenish, minty chewing gum, containing 3¾ ...

Researchers studying antibiotics in pregnancy have found a surprising link between common drugs used to treat urinary infections with birth defects. Reassuringly, the most-used antibiotics in early ...

Antibiotic use has been linked to two rare but painful and sometimes deadly skin reactions: Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis, a new study reports. Twenty-eight percent of ...