A study conducted first in mice and then in human volunteers suggests that a common antibiotic, neomycin, which is the main active ingredient in Neosporin, may help protect against viral ...

Neosporin contains neomycin, bacitracin and polymyxin B, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Medicine. The COVID-19 virus has infected more than 774 million people and killed nearly 7 ...

A tube of Neosporin antibiotic ointment in Illinois on April 14, 2016. Credit - Daniel Acker/Bloomberg—Getty Images For years, researchers have been working on vaccines that aim to prevent viral ...

When an aminoglycoside encounters a bacterium and acts as an antibiotic, the compound interferes with the microbe’s ability to make proteins. But that’s not how Neosporin might fight off viruses.