Word: antibioticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The advent of penicillin drugs in the early 1940s ushered in a triumphant era of medicine. With stunning speed, pharmaceutical chemists armed doctors with one antibiotic after another, giving them an arsenal of magic bullets to knock out the germs that cause everything from pneumonia to gonorrhea. It was only...
Antibiotic-proof bacteria are spreading around the globe because of the enormous increase in tourism and business travel in recent decades. Last month a woman came to a New York City emergency room with a strain of cholera picked up in Ecuador that was impervious to a variety of antibiotics...
One of modern medicine's disheartening setbacks has been the emergence of TB strains that are resistant to standard medication. In last week's Nature, researchers from Hammersmith Hospital in London and from the Pasteur Institute in Paris report they have uncovered the genetic reason behind this dangerous trend. They...
The antihistamine Seldane is a godsend to allergy sufferers because it doesn't cause drowsiness. But the FDA reports that in 64 cases out of 200 million users worldwide, it has led to irregular heartbeats, heart attacks and even death. The danger is to people with liver disease, people who...
While studying chimpanzees in Tanzania 20 years ago, Professor of Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham discovered several plants, used medicinally by the animals. One such plant contains an oil that kills bacteria, fungi and parasitic worms. Another is an effective antibiotic, and a third induces labor or abortion.