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An Ottawa-area woman has become the first in the country to test out a new kind of therapy for treatment-resistant infections that happen in some patients who receive hip or knee replacements.

The moving story of a scientist saving her husband from a deadly drug-resistant superbug memorialized in "The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband...

But scientists might have found the solution: tiny viruses that seek and destroy deadly bacteria.

Ancient tiny creatures in and around us may help solve the growing crisis of antibiotic-resistant germs killing millions around the world.

Ancient tiny creatures in and around us may help solve the growing crisis of antibiotic-resistant germs killing millions around the world.

(CNN) — Cynthia Horton’s earaches are the stuff of nightmares.

Scientists estimate that by the year 2050, 10 million people per year are going to die by a superbug infection.

With her husband near death from an antibiotic-resistant superbug, a scientist found a cure no one had used in the US — intravenous injections of viruses called phages — and convinced the medical system to save his life.

With her husband near death from an antibiotic-resistant superbug, a scientist found a cure no one had used in the US — intravenous injections of viruses called phages — and convinced the medical system to save his life.

Phage therapy — bacteria-killing viruses — might be the most important alternative and adjunct to antibiotics.