Few hospital-acquired infections are as antibiotic-resistant as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This opportunistic germ has earned a reputation for beating nearly every drug in the doctor’s arsenal. It ...

A new method of treating tooth decay using silver nitrate may make the pain, and expense, of traditional treatments obsolete. Special correspondent Cat Wise has the story. But first, there's long been ...

In the first of a two-part series, Dr. John Frachella makes the case for using silver nitrate and silver fluoride when treating already decayed teeth in children. In this column, he offers a ...

Thousands of years before the discovery of microbes or the invention of antibiotics, silver was used to protect wounds from infection and to preserve food and water. The alluring metal — which was ...

University of Oregon researchers tested a new combination drug therapy that proved 10,000 times more effective at killing ...

SILVER nitrate in acid solution has been widely used for the study of the distribution of ascorbic acid in tissues and cells 1. A survey has recently been made, using this method, of its occurrence in ...