Alternative treatments may be costly and, in some cases, toxic. The resistance of some infections to effective treatment with existing antibiotics is allowing some infectious diseases, that previously ...

With the increase in antibiotic resistance, is it time to revisit this alternative class of medications? When interferon treatment was being developed in the Soviet Union, this was effectively ...

Alternative approaches include finding new antibiotics, also in nature. [Penicillin, the first naturally derived antibiotic, came from mold.] But this takes longer than finding suitable phages and ...

A toddler died after she was given an alternative medicine to treat a chesty cough. Two-year-old Ava Hodgkinson was taken to ...