Word: antibioticized
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The litigation that has now finally reached a climax began 20 years ago when the Federal Government noticed that wholesale prices for tetracycline-based antibiotics were not only surprisingly high but identical at various drug companies. Eventually, the Justice Department charged Pfizer, American Cyanamid and Bristol with fraudulently monopolizing patents...
In this respect, as in many others, medicine stands alone among the professions. Poor performance by a tax accountant, an architect, or a tort lawyer can usually be expressed in terms of dollars, which any layman can understand. Not so with medicine. The cliché has it that medicine is...
Died. Dr. Selman Abraham Waksman, 85, a pioneer in microbiology who coined the term "antibiotic" in 1941 and two years later isolated streptomycin, the first antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hyannis, Mass. The Ukrainian-born scientist, who came to America in 1910, headed the Rutgers team...
"I suspect it did not come on suddenly," Tkach told reporters at the hospital. "I suspect he felt tired and didn't want to say anything to me about it." Just returned from a 16-day sojourn at San Clemente, Nixon had begun feeling pains in his chest on...
When Dr. Walter R. Tkach, Nixon's personal physician since 1969, concluded that his patient was suffering from viral pneumonia, he knew that it might take several days for lab tests to determine whether the infecting agent was Mycoplasma or a true virus. He decided to administer an antibiotic...