Word: antibioticized
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That view appears to have been overly optimistic. Last week prison authorities in New York State revealed that 13 inmates and one guard have died of a form of tuberculosis that proved impervious to antibiotic therapy. It was the sixth major outbreak of so-called multidrug-resistant TB in the...
Reflexologists claim that the therapy dates back to at least 2330 B.C. and is depicted in a wall painting in an Egyptian tomb. It's a familiar theme. Egyptology figures in the credentials of a number of alternative remedies, as do claims that the British royal family are loyal patients...
His third major contribution to the study of enzymes looked at the resistance of bacteria to penicillin. Bacteria develop a resistance to penicillin by producing an enzyme that makes the antibiotic harmless.
Antibiotic treatment usually works fairly well in the early stages, but the suffering of a few patients with advanced Lyme disease does not respond to conventional cures. So a dangerous and unconventional therapy has come into use. Dr. Henry Heimlich of Cincinnati, known for developing the Heimlich maneuver to relieve...
Overzealous marketing practices in the drug industry have attracted attention in Washington. At a Senate hearing in December, critics cited a litany of abuses that seemed to cross the line between advertising and bribery. Roche, for example, paid doctors $1,200 to prescribe a new antibiotic to 20 hospital patients...