Increased antibiotic use can lead, seemingly paradoxically, to more problematic infections, as the bacteria evolve to resist the treatment. The answer to this antimicrobial resistance, which the ...

Increased antibiotic use can lead, seemingly paradoxically, to more problematic infections, as the bacteria evolve to resist the treatment. The answer to this antimicrobial resistance, which the ...

Researchers found that orally administered sevelamer — a dialysis drug — can bind off-target antibiotics, shown being injected into the arm here, in the gut. Off-target antibiotics, or ...

The team found that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drug sevelamer, typically prescribed to help bind excess phosphorus in the blood of people with chronic kidney disease ...

Hooked onto a dialysis machine at a private hospital in Punjab’s Mohali, a devastated Basuki Nath Sonar had just one refrain on Thursday afternoon: “Woh mera Shravan tha (He was an ideal son).” Across ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an umbrella term used to describe a longstanding disease or condition that causes the progressive loss of kidney (renal) function. Symptoms vary, depending on the stage ...

Blood poisoning commonly describes septicemia, a condition in which a local infection moves into the bloodstream and spreads to organs. It can also be used to describe sepsis, a potentially ...