Could germs be making you fat?

(Reuters) - Germs that make their home in the gut may help cause obesity and a range of health-threatening symptoms that go along with it, researchers reported ...

Mar 05, 2010 11:59PM

Drug-resistant bacteria on increase in U.S.: study

Cases of a drug-resistant bacterial infection known as MRSA have risen by 90 percent since 1999, and they are increasingly being acquired outside hospitals, res...

Nov 24, 2009 11:24PM

Study exposes how bacteria resist antibiotics

Julie Steenhuysen

Scientists have discovered how bacteria fend off a wide range of antibiotics, and blocking that defense mechanism could give existing antibiotics more power to ...

Sep 12, 2009 4:03AM

Drug-resistant bacteria may come home from hospital

Patients with potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria that they pick up in the hospital often carry the infection to home health care settings after hospital...

Aug 12, 2009 1:41AM