Antibiotics can save lives, but they can also cause side effects. Consumer Reports outlines what parents should know about reactions to antibiotics and when to take your child to the emergency room.

More than 60% of patients receive antibiotics for acute upper respiratory infections, and many of these cases lead to adverse health events such as Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection, according ...

Bactrim (sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim) is a prescription drug used to treat or help prevent certain infections in adults and some children, including urinary tract ...

NEW DELHI: Antibiotic use is the top reason for side effects among people, a latest national survey has said. However, the survey conducted on over 17,000 people in 303 Indian districts found that it ...

Ciprofloxacin is a generic prescription drug used to treat certain bacterial infections. It’s also available as the brand-name drug Cipro. Ciprofloxacin can cause side effects that range from mild to ...

Have you ever searched for information about side effects of a medication? These days, most people put the name of their drug into a search engine along with the phrase “side effects.” Whatever comes ...

NEW YORK -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ratcheted up its warning about the potential side effects of a class of commonly-prescribed powerful antibiotic, including the drug known by the ...

You’ve almost certainly been prescribed antibiotics in your life. Maybe you had a nasty case of strep throat or needed to take precautions after a surgery. But even if you’re used to picking up a ...

Scientists have a lead in the ever-more-urgent hunt for antibiotics that can combat multidrug-resistant bacteria—and this one is a throwback. In a PLOS Biology article published May 16, a team of ...