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HONEYMOON OVER? Urinary-tract infections--dubbed honeymooner's cystitis--are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Research published last week shows that 18% of the infections today--double the percentage in 1992--may be resistant to Bactrim and Septa, the most widely prescribed medications. Other drugs that are penicillin-based no longer work on 1 out of 3 infections. What tends to bring on the infection? Frequent sex and the use of a diaphragm and spermicides...
Indeed, the research was roundly criticized in 1997 by Dr. Marcia Angell, executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, who compared it to the infamous Tuskegee experiment in which African-American men with syphilis were left untreated, even though penicillin was available during the study, just to see what would happen...
...Penicillin 1928, developed and first tested by Alexander Fleming...
...name just a few random things we did in a hundred years: we split the atom, invented jazz and rock, launched airplanes and landed on the moon, concocted a general theory of relativity, devised the transistor and figured out how to etch millions of them on tiny microchips, discovered penicillin and the structure of DNA, fought down fascism and communism, bombed Guernica and painted the bombing of Guernica, developed cinema and television, built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers and Websites, shopping malls and leisure time...
Despite the danger of antibiotics, however, few patients have heeded the warnings. When penicillin came out, it was hailed as the savior for staphylococcus aureus patients, and afflicted individuals today would like to believe the same about vancomycin...