Excessive heat will once again blast much of the United States next week, with heat indices predicted to reach 110 degrees ...

Factory Farms Depend on Antibiotics to Raise Billions of Animals. The Food and Drug Administration data show sales of medically important antimicrobials approved for use in farm animals rose 4.3 ...

What might keep you up at night, though, is the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. About 23,000 people in the U.S., and 700,000 people globally, die each year of antibiotic ...

The US Food and Drug Administration’s 2020 report on sales of antibiotics for use in cattle, swine, and poultry—which include many classes of antibiotics also used in human medicine—shows ...

The study is based on a limited data set of veterinary-antimicrobials sales from 32 countries, all with developed economies. Before now there has been no quantitative measurement of global ...

First we need to know how and where these drugs are being used. As of 2014, only 42 countries had a system to collect data on the use of antimicrobial treatments in animal husbandry. A newly ...

Slaughter could have said more clearly that of all the antibiotics sold for use by people and livestock, 80 percent are for animals. But she was close. We rate her statement Mostly True.

Researchers at the University of Delaware are looking into what causes that gut feeling in livestock animals such as cows and chickens. Ryan Arsenault, assistant professor in the Department of Animal ...

"These animals use feed very efficiently, and you can keep them in relatively small cages," says Ferrari. In fact, Ferrari recommends guinea pigs over chickens to just about anyone living in cities.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s 2020 report on sales of antibiotics for use in cattle, swine, and poultry—which include many classes of antibiotics also used in human medicine—shows ...