Word: penicillin
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...Little Women and my thoroughly modern daughters have reminded me of how miraculous the antibiotic era has been. The advent of penicillin was hailed as miraculous and indeed it was. Mickey Mantle would have had his leg and future baseball career amputated if not for penicillin. Thousands of wounded soldiers would not have returned home from World War II. But the battlefields around us have changed. We have quietly entered a new era of antibiotic resistance, and the rules of germ warfare are changing as fast as military tactics. The next generation of patients, scientists, and drug therapy must...
...moral cost: the technical term is "disinhibition, which the CDC defines as "an increase in unsafe behaviors in response to perceptions of safety caused by introduction of a preventive or therapeutic intervention." (Once upon a time the concern was raised about introducing anesthesia during childbirth, or using penicillin to treat syphilis, as spurring more sexual activity; more recently, the argument is made about needle exchange and condom distribution...
...sleeping next to him and often awoke during the night, screaming for his mother to " kill it! " No amount of bribes had worked, and his lack of sleeping was affecting his days in kindergarten. He refused to go outside for recess and was withdrawn from his peers. After prescribing penicillin for the strep and ordering a blood test on the jaundiced infant, I called the appropriately anxious mom back...
...today. Worldwide, overuse of antibiotics is increasing the resistance of bacteria to drugs, leading to stubborn, virulent infections that are invulnerable to almost everything doctors can throw at them. Already, more than 90% of some bacteria species in Asia have developed strong immunity to frequently administered antibiotics such as penicillin and ampicillin, according to the World Health Organization. Despite growing awareness of the problem, health-care experts now fear that widespread misuse of antibiotics in populous developing countries such as China will accelerate the emergence of new strains of supergerms, making everything from common diseases like pneumonia to routine surgery...
...accessible to physicians and patients. He thinks he's on the doorstep of another transformation. "There is less penetration of information technology in health care than any other major industry," says Tullman. "Someone has said the advent of electronic health records will be as significant as the discovery of penicillin...