Infectious Disease

September 19th 2025

Sabin Nsanzimana, M.D., Ph.D., the country’s top health official, credits supportive care and access to investigational treatments, including remdesivir, with keeping the case fatality rate low in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.

September 18th 2025

A new study has found that caffeine and other substances can influence gene regulation in Escherichia coli bacteria, making them more resistant to antibiotics.

September 4th 2025

The risk varies with the antibiotic, though. Piperacillin and clavulanate boosted the risk. The third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins did not.