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Here's a reason to think twice about giving antibiotics to kids: researchers at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit found that by age 7, children who received antibiotics such as penicillin in their first six months were 1.5 times as likely to develop allergies and more than twice as likely to develop asthma as kids who didn't get the drugs. Also at higher risk for allergies were children who were breast-fed for more than four months and those whose mothers had a history of allergies. The study followed 448 youngsters suffering allergies to pets, ragweed, grass...
...Penicillin In 1928 Canadian doctor Alexander Fleming, below, noted that Penicillium mold destroyed colonies of bacteria, proving that medicines could kill disease-causing pathogens inside the body. The true significance was realized in the 1940s when a powder form of the drug was made...
...might have disabled another man. "The records of his maladies for August 1961," writes Dallek, "provide a window into his struggle to remain effectively attentive to the public's business. His stomach and urinary ailments were a daily distraction." He was taking codeine sulfate and procaine for his pain, penicillin for his infection, cortisone for his Addison's and so on. His back was killing him--the steroids had been weakening his spine. "Something as simple as bending over a lectern to read a speech caused him terrible pain. Out of sight of the press, he went up and down...
McCormick said that there is a rising proportion of bacteria resistant to both penicillin and erythromycin—two of the most heavily prescribed antibiotics...
...Resistance to penicillin... appeared within months of its first use. Drug resistance has been around as long as clinical use of antibiotics,” he said...