Why did you choose to research infections and their treatment? Every day we are inching towards a world where we do not have antibiotics that work due to bacterial antibiotic resistance. It threatens ...

Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. Islamic doctors and a number of scholars wrote profusely on health and ...

Biofilm-associated infections are notoriously difficult to treat, and they also play a role in antibiotic resistance as more antimicrobials are urgently needed to treat biofilm-associated infections.

Medieval medicine and active fund management have a lot in common. They both have a success rate that’s based mostly on faith rather than scientific fact. Medieval medical "cures" and outperformance ...

Evolution of microbes means it is necessary to find new drugs to battle them The Ancientbiotics team is compiling a database of medieval medical recipes One recipe turned out to be a potent ...

One of our current global threats is antibiotic resistance. As more biofilm-associated infections are becoming hard to treat, the burden on scientists to find solutions is increasing. Now, researchers ...

The apparent contradiction begins immediately, with the book’s title: “Healing with Poisons.” But in this sweeping examination of poison’s role in medieval Chinese medicine, Yan Liu, assistant ...

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts, but their contents--the conditions that were described, the prescriptions that were advised--have ...

Madam, - Dick Ahlstrom's report of Dr Carrie Griffin's lecture on medieval medicine says that a physician in that period would… Madam, - Dick Ahlstrom's report of Dr Carrie Griffin's lecture on ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...