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Read MoreMedicine may be about to achieve a long-sought goal: a “morning-after pill” to prevent sexually transmitted infections. It could sharply reduce soaring rates of illness and huge health care costs. The effectiveness of this pill—and it literally is a pill, a 200-milligram tablet of the antibiotic doxycycline—has been studied for a decade, and people have […]
Read MoreScientists consider between 100,000 and 1 million cells per gram to be an important threshold for bacteria in wounds: Below that limit, they’re not likely to cause a problem; above it, the infection becomes dangerous. Healing slows. The microbe population skyrockets and eventually forms a biofilm, little “villages” that antibiotics can’t penetrate. Biofilm enzymes degrade […]
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