The Researchers from the University of Washington (the USA) found out that garlic contains compounds 100 times more effective than the antibiotics prescribed in case of food poisoning. The Campylobacter bacterium causing severe food poisoning is most often ingested with poultry. The Telegraph reports that in recent years cases of chicken liver pate poisoning have become especially frequent. ... Full story

Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization said in a recent speech that bacteria had become too resistant to common antibiotics, and this could lead to "the end of modern medicine". Full story

A survey conducted by the Agency for Health Protection in the UK has shown that many people believe antibiotics can help with cough and colds. Full story

The doctors have a joke saying that there are no healthy people, there are just those who have not been examined enough. Thus, the need to promote new products forces pharmaceutical companies towards a "sudden" discovery of imaginative diseases. Full story

The scientists have developed a drug that can recognize the cells infected with any type of virus. And then the antibiotic kills the pathogen infection, as the experts from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory explain. Full story

The popular scientific New Scientist journal has published the results of an interesting study conducted by the American scientists who have come to a paradoxical conclusion about what leads to madness. Full story