Word: penicillins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advent of penicillin drugs in the early 1940s ushered in a triumphant era of medicine. With stunning speed, pharmaceutical chemists armed doctors with one antibiotic after another, giving them an arsenal of magic bullets to knock out the germs that cause everything from pneumonia to gonorrhea. It was only a matter of time, it seemed, before all infectious diseases would be conquered...
Deaths from abortion occur most often because of infection, which is usually avoidable if doctors prescribe penicillin. In the pre-Roe v. Wade era, the number of mothers' deaths from abortion decreased for 30 years because of the advent of penicillin's use. It did not decrease, as pro-choicers argue, because of the availability of legal abortion. There is nothing inherently safer about a legal abortion. If there were, pro-abortion women who wish abortions to continue if Roe is reversed would not now be learning how to perform abortions...
...third major contribution to the study of enzymes looked at the resistance of bacteria to penicillin. Bacteria develop a resistance to penicillin by producing an enzyme that makes the antibiotic harmless...
Knowles and his researchers examined the mechanism of how the enzyme blocks penicillin and helped develop a drug to prevent the enzyme from functioning...
Usually, the added cost of a new drug is justified by an obvious benefit. Second- and third-generation antibiotics, for instance, can work when older, cheaper antibiotics like penicillin fail. In other cases, a costly new drug may break new ground, as AZT did in treating AIDS...