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There’s exciting news in the world of phage therapy and antimicrobial resistance! Jerry Nick, MD, of National Jewish Health, and Graham Hatfull, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, announced a patient’s ...

A team of researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California San Diego used a single bacteriophage to treat an immunocompromised patient with ...

A widow whose husband contracted an infection following a pioneering heart-lung transplant said she wanted answers from the hospital that cared for him. Aaron Green, of Arundel, West Sussex, had the ...