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(MedPage Today) -- Gonorrhea is putting up increasing resistance to the last antibiotic class highly effective against it, the CDC has again warned.

(MedPage Today) -- Gains are being made in the struggle to curb the overuse of antibiotics in children, but with resistance continuing to rise and antimicrobial choices dwindling, efforts must continue, according to the CDC.

Mosquitoes can rapidly develop resistance to bed nets treated with insecticide, a new study from Senegal suggests.

A new strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea has become resistant to antibiotics, international research shows.

Researchers have been teasing out the biological bases for naked mole rats' cancer resistance, which may help explain how they manage to live almost 10 times longer than their house mouse and street rat cousins.

People from regions with a long history of urban living could be genetically better suited to fighting infection, say experts.

(Radiological Society of North America) A study of triathletes reveals that the heart adapts to triathlon training by working more efficiently.

A sharp increase in community-associated strains of a drug-resistant pathogen among outpatients is driving the rise of resistance within hospitals, researchers said.

PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- An old antibiotic -- one of the last drugs still active against many bacteria -- is facing rapidly developing resistance, a researcher said here.

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