The quest to contain gonorrhea has been a decades-long struggle, but there is hope on the horizon in the form of new ...

Many non-antibiotic drugs are known to disrupt the human microbiome but their mechanisms of toxicity are unclear. Writing in Science, Guillen et al. use high-throughput genetic screens and network ...

A one-dose oral drug called zoliflodacin has proven highly effective against gonorrhoea in a major international trial. The pill matched the success of current treatments while avoiding injections and ...

Mariana Noto Guillen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Zuckerman is president of the National Center for Health Research and a former congressional investigator on FDA approval standards. Powers is professor of clinical medicine at George Washington ...