Word: penicillin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There. The "Lifeboat" single was forgettable, but the entire rest of the repertoire, given undivided attention, will slowly become profound and moving. One of the reasons lies in the Sugargliders' ability--the rarest thing in the world--to integrate melodic neatness with the aforementioned back-beats. "Reinventing Penicillin," for example, could be a good slowed-down New Order song, and "Trumpet Play" nonchalantly imports a soft "jazz" trumpet and jazz-club background noise into the end of what would otherwise be a rolling, groove-oriented late-night "ballad...
...doctor asked me if I was allergic to anything," says Martin. "I said aspirin and penicillin. But he gave me a shot of Demerol which causes a reaction in people allergic to aspirin and penicillin. I went into a spasm...
...only the old recession. Or there was CBS News's pitiful attempt a few weeks ago to claim alternative healing as a newsworthy trend. Healing with crystals and chamomile may have been trendy and exciting in '74. Today, among the 37 million uninsured, chamomile has long since replaced penicillin, and going to an internist is considered a form of "alternative healing...
...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. Penicillin- resistant strains of gonorrhea, originally noted in Africa around 1976, have cropped up in the Philippines, Thailand and the Washington Heights section of New York City. Public health officials are particularly concerned about potentially fatal forms of dysentery in Central and South America that are resistant to half a dozen...
...reason bacteria acquire resistance to several antibiotics is that many drugs are derivative of one another. For example, when bacteria developed an enzyme to chew up penicillin, drug designers retaliated with larger antibiotic molecules that did not fit into the site that serves as that enzyme's "mouth." In short order, says Dr. Mitchell Cohen, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, "the bacteria responded to the challenge by developing an enzyme with a bigger mouth...