Antibiotics use to be the talk of the medical world just fifty years go, now the talk is about trying to find a better antibiotic than the ones they came up with less than a five decades ago. Antibiotic Resistance has taking the world by storm. The abuse and excessive use of antimicrobials may be dr...

Tired of trying various types of antibiotics to cure your illness? Don't worry, like many other people around the world you are a victim of bacterial antibiotic-resistance. Wondering why? The answer to this question is simple, physicians and hospitals have over prescribed antibiotics, even for ...

Many Americans today expect that when they go to the doctor, for whatever that happens to be ailing them, that they will receive antibiotics. This is the general practice of many physicians, not because they are ignorant to the ramifications but rather because they do not want to take the time to at...

Lyme Disease, caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, is an inflammatory, usually nonfatal disease transmitted by the bite of ticks, and more specifically, Deer Ticks. These ticks live on deer, mice, dogs, and other animals. This disease has been said to be the second fastest growing epidemic o...

Throughout the 20th century, scientists have continually made important and advantageous breakthroughs in numerous fields of studies. Many of the scientists responsible for these discoveries directly, or indirectly, used animals somewhere along the road to their goals and conclusions. This process o...

Sir Alexander Fleming was born in Lochfield, Scotland on August 6th, 1881. He attended St. Mary's Medical School in London. It was in St. Mary's, where Sir Alexander Fleming began his research. Early in his medical life, Fleming became interested in the natural bacterial action of the ...

We have all had those mornings where we wake up and we have a sore throat. This in time is followed by a cough, sniffle and sneeze. At last, life as we know it has changed in our minds and we are comparable to the Titanic. Our body's immunological ship is sinking, and the lifeboat that we will...