(Natural News) Antibiotics were initially developed to save human lives from deadly infections and diseases. But extreme overuse by the farming industry has led to the appearance of antibiotic-resistant superbugs that cannot be treated. Since Alexander Fleming came across penicillin in 1928, it and other antibiotics have saved many lives from diseases such as cholera, meningitis, […]

(Natural News) Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a considerable threat to human health. Swedish researchers believe that these drug-resistant, disease-causing microbes developed their immunity via exposure to the leftover antibiotics found in human feces, which entered the environment through sewage discharge. There are some possible reasons behind the increasing prevalence of drug-resistant bacteria in the environment. One possibility […]

(Natural News) Essential oils are commonly used today for aromatherapy. It is a form of alternative medicine that is used to treat mild ailments and improve a person’s emotional well-being. Aside from being aromatic, essential oils also contain compounds that possess antimicrobial properties. One such example is carvacrol, a volatile chemical that can be found in […]

(Natural News) Antibiotics are known to disrupt the microbial balance in the gut, increasing the risk of getting infected by bacteria such as Clostridium difficile. However, a new study found that even common pain relievers may promote infections caused by C. difficile. C. difficile causes the most common and most dangerous hospital-born infections in the U.S. and around the world. For […]

(Natural News) Candida auris is a “silent superbug” that’s already spreading across U.S. hospitals and nursing homes. The CDC has reported hundreds of infections across seven states, and is tracking over 1,000 “colonizations” where the fungal strain has infected human carriers who spread it to others. Notably, the CDC refuses to name which hospitals have […]

(Natural News) In this study, published in the Journal of Essential Oil Research, researchers from Mexico examined the antimicrobial activity of volatile compounds derived from essential oils. They tested these compounds against nosocomial (hospital-derived) pathogens, including a multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii, which commonly affects people with weak immune systems. The minimum inhibitory dose (MID) of the […]

(Natural News) Primary care physicians routinely over-prescribe antibiotics and contribute to the problem of antibiotic resistance. According to a 2016 report from the National Health Service, antibiotic resistance is “one of the most significant threats to patient safety worldwide.” A study published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy presents a simple solution to this growing […]

(Natural News) Imagine a dystopian science-fiction future where hospital ventilation systems are pumping out a deadly superbug, right into the open atmosphere, where winds carry it to local communities and farms, infecting crops and foods with chemical-resistant fungal strains that have a reported 41% – 88% fatality rate in humans. And imagine the CDC knew […]

(Natural News) Are you one of those people who obsessively washes their hands with anti-germ handwash and sprays the countertops repeatedly with hygiene cleaners? If so, it may come as a surprise to know that some scientists believe that this kind of obsessive cleaning could actually be making you sicker. It may sound counterintuitive, but as […]

(Natural News) As the world struggles to find a way to deal with the deadly problem of antibiotic resistance, it’s important to take a look at how we ended up in this situation in the first place – and one big factor has been unnecessary antibiotic use. You might like to think that every time […]