Superbug

Second Los Angeles hospital issues alert over 'superbug', may have infected 70 patients

The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center may have unwittingly infected nearly 70 patients with a treatment-resistant superbug, it said Wednesday, becoming the second Los Angeles hospital to issue an alert.

California 'superbug' outbreak in hospital raises questions about medical tool

A "superbug" outbreak suspected in the deaths of two Los Angeles hospital patients is raising disturbing questions about the design of a hard-to-clean medical instrument.

UCLA says more than 100 were exposed 'superbug' in California hospital

A potentially deadly "superbug" resistant to antibiotics infected seven patients, including two who died, and more than 100 others were exposed at a California hospital.

Scientists create new antibiotic which can fight superbugs, drug-resistant TB

Scientists using a revolutionary approach have devised an antibiotic that may offset the mounting problem of drug resistance for decades.

Pfizer takes a shot at evasive superbug vaccine

Kathrin Jansen, a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name is now taming the superbug MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterium for Pfizer.

Antibiotic resistant strain of gonorrhoea could be more deadly than AIDS

The antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhoea – now considered a superbug - was discovered in Japan two years ago.