Silver found to increase effectiveness of antibiotics

Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 07:30 in Health & Medicine

Silver, used for centuries to fight infection and other germs, when added to antibiotics in trace amounts makes the drugs as much as 1,000 times more effective in treating mice, researchers find.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.

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