Antibiotiques

Antibiotic treatment for chlamydia, the most common sexually transmitted disease in the UK, will be sold over the counter in pharmacies from October.

American health officials in three Midwestern states are scrambling to contain a rare and lethal virus that is spread by rodents and monkeys and has never been seen before in the western hemisphere.

An Edinburgh-based company just given £50,000 to scour the Scottish tidal pools may have found a new weapon against hospital superbugs.