A new study suggests diagnoses have increased at a faster clip among younger adults over the past decade. Autism spectrum disorder spiked 175% among people in the U.S. from 2.3 per 1,000 in 2011 ...

Rates of autism diagnoses nearly tripled between 2011 and 2022 Cases rose most sharply among young adults and among females versus males Better awareness and an easing of stigma around the condition ...

Oral antibiotic use analyzed by number of dispensations, bacterial target, spectrum of coverage, and more is not associated with early-onset CRC. Oral antibiotic use in adulthood is not significantly ...

An antibiotic developed some 80 years ago before being abandoned and forgotten could again offer exciting new solutions, this time to the emerging threat of drug-resistant superbugs. Half of the ...

The drugs can wreak havoc on your microbiome. Here’s what may be key to restoring it. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Isobel Whitcomb Q: I was recently prescribed ...

Certain groups of people are more vulnerable to infection and complications from hemorrhagic gastroenteritis. These include: Some E. coli infections need antibiotics—but hemorrhagic gastroenteritis is ...

(Submitted by Casey Marie Ecker) Her story is part of a growing pattern — both in the increase in prescription drugs being handed out for ADHD and in the number of adults who suspect they have ...

Adults 50 and older can now get the shot, as rates of the illness climb. By Dani Blum The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lowered the recommended age from 65 to 50 for adults to get ...

State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China University of Chinese Academy of ...

However, the emergence of bacterial multidrug resistance due to the past or present inappropriate use of antibiotics has rendered bacterial infections a significant challenge. The objective of this ...

When bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics, it can be deadly, but researchers have now decoded part of the bacteria's defence mechanism. Imagine falling seriously ill with an infection.