BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman who says she suffered a life-threatening infection after Idaho’s prison staffers denied her antibiotics following dental surgery is suing state officials and Corizon...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Southern California pharmacy technicain has been charged with stealing an anti-malaria drug that President Donald Trump has touted for treating the coronavirus,...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A researcher at New Mexico State University has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health for her work on antibiotic resistance.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Poultry and timber remain atop Mississippi's agricultural economy.

Broilers, eggs and chickens brought nearly $2.8 billion to the state’s economy while timber...

GROSSE TETE, La. (AP) — A veterinarian has prescribed antibiotics to a camel owned by a Louisiana truck stop petting zoo after a woman bit the 600-pound (272-kilogram) animal to free herself from...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Officials believe a visitor to a western Pennsylvania hospital likely was the source of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection contracted by a dozen people, including six...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A children's hospital in western Pennsylvania says a dozen people — including six babies — are being treated for the antibiotic-resistant staph infection known as MRSA.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three Los Angeles police officers who work at a station in the San Fernando Valley have been infected with the superbug known as MRSA.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The University of Louisville says it is launching a campaign aimed at decreasing the use of antibiotics.

A statement from the school's health sciences department says...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — An antibiotic-resistant "superbug" that originated in India has been found in a remote part of the world by a group of researchers that includes a University of Kansas geology professor.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Department of Health says a patient being treated at the Cheyenne hospital has found to have a rare antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection.

In addition, the agency says the organism infecting the patient also included a rare antibiotic-resistant gene.

The Health Department news release says it does not appear the infection was acquired at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center where the patient is being treated.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Christina Fuhrman, now 37, almost didn't make it to her wedding. She was extremely ill as she chose her dress, veil and shoes. The honeymoon in Sweden was spent in a hospital.

"I was just disappearing and just dying," Fuhrman said to the Columbia Missourian .

SHELBURNE, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Department of Health is investigating an outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant bug that sickened 70 people at a retirement community.

Investigators have confirmed 22 cases of Shigellosis and 48 others have shown symptoms consistent with the bacteria at the Wake Robin retirement community in Shelburne.

The Shigella bacteria can cause diarrhea and fever.

CHICAGO (AP) — When emergency tests showed the telltale right-sided pain in Heather VanDusen's abdomen was appendicitis, she figured she'd be quickly wheeled into surgery. But doctors offered her the option of antibiotics instead.

A new study from Finland shows her choice is a reasonable alternative for most patients with appendicitis. Five years after treatment with antibiotics, almost two-thirds of patients hadn't had another attack.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The head of a small Kansas City pharmaceutical company is defending himself after a financial publication reported that he said he had a "moral requirement" to raise the price of a 65-year-old antibiotic by 400 percent.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City-area man has filed a lawsuit alleging that a trip to an urgent care clinic for a foot wound led to gangrene and a leg amputation.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University will establish and lead a new research center into antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a joint announcement Thursday from two university organizations.

Infants who are given antacids like Zantac or Pepcid are more likely to develop childhood allergies, perhaps because these drugs may alter their gut bacteria, a new large study suggests.

Early use of antibiotics also raised the chances of allergies in the study of nearly 800,000 children.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new San Francisco ordinance makes the city the first in the country to require large chain grocery stores to report which antibiotics are used in the raw meat they sell.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the ordinance was signed into law Tuesday after unanimous approval by the Board of Supervisors last week.

PARADISE, Texas (AP) — Experts say people who consumed raw milk or raw milk products from a North Texas dairy could have contracted an infectious disease and need to take antibiotics.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday issued the brucellosis (broo-suh-LOH'-sis) warning involving K-Bar Dairy in Paradise, near Fort Worth.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Officials in Portland, Maine, say two children who attended a summer day camp in a community center have been diagnosed with an antibiotic-resistant skin infection.

The infection is commonly called MRSA, which stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Portland spokeswoman Jessica Grondin says one child was hospitalized and has since been released.

BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) — Two former Salem State University chemistry majors could wind up discovering the first class of new antibiotics in 30 years.

Jack Cotter and Dakota Hamill are the founders of Prospective Research Inc., an antibiotic drug discovery company working out of an Endicott College lab.