Researchers have a new battle tactic to fight drug-resistant bacterial infections. Their strategy involves using collections of bacteriophages, viruses that naturally attack bacteria.

With winter approaching, medicine wholesalers expect the Netherlands will again face antibiotic shortages. The government ...

The infection can result from food, plaque, or bacteria becoming trapped in the gums. Pericoronitis usually occurs as wisdom ...

H. pylori infections occur across the world due to exposure to saliva or stool in contaminated water or food. Learn how the ...

But while oral conditions such as chronic gum disease, dehydration, poor saliva flow and dental ... by gut bacteria – are being produced in such quantities that they make their way up to the mouth, it ...

More than a dozen bacterial species among the hundreds that live in people's mouths have been linked to a collective 50% ...

Scientists are increasingly discovering new ways that our microbiome - the community of bacteria and viruses that live inside ...

When you have a tooth infection ... to their gums, which can irritate or burn the tissue. Tooth decay or infections that could have been treated easily with a filling or antibiotics may escalate ...

I have just been told I have a slight infection called Gardnerella. They told me it wasn't sexually transmitted, but I am still worried that it will stop me from conceiving.

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections often occur in patients with chronic inflammatory intestinal conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease, and in patients who have taken antibiotics ...

Carlos Duarte via Getty Images More than 39 million people around the globe could die because of antibiotic-resistant infections between 2025 and 2050—a statistic that equates to about three ...