antibiotics

U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a post-sex morning after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases.

The biomedical industry is adopting new standards to protect horseshoe crabs because they are a linchpin in the production of vital medicines.

The department also listed a shortage for an oral powder. Amoxicillin is available in chewable tablets or capsules.

Dolly Parton is donating $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.