Broadcast version by Roz Brown for New Mexico News Connection reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration It's a well-known fact that factory farms rely on antibiotics to treat ...

Consider where antibiotics are most used: A 2015 study (Van Boeckel et al.) indicated that, worldwide, antibiotics are more likely to be administered to farm animals than to humans. In the United ...

Rather than concentrate on the use of antibiotics, the research advocated alternative growth promotion methods, such as adding digestive enzymes and probiotics to animal feed and improving ...

Antibiotics are often overprescribed by physicians and veterinarians and overused by the public. Where they can be bought for human or animal use without a prescription, the emergence and spread ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Stanford University researchers report that ciprofloxacin use drives persistent antibiotic resistance in human gut bacteria, ...

A global modeling study found that 8,500 tonnes of antibiotics from human use alone enter rivers annually, threatening ...

6 In addition, farming practices, such as the use of unnecessary antibiotics for growth promotion in livestock, contribute significantly to the spread of drug-resistant bacteria in both animals ...

“It could occur in a hospital from overprescribing and use of antibiotics, it could be also occurring from usage in agriculture from producing animals, keeping them safe and healthy, so that we ...

The EMA also indicated that there was no evidence in support of the prophylactic use of another antibiotic called tigecycline, which is not currently approved for use in animals, though the agency ...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) points to a 55% drop in antibiotic use in food-producing animals since 2014. and an 83% decrease in the use of antibiotics most ...