He first colorfully dubbed the substance “mold juice,” later changing it to “penicillin,” after the fungus that produced it. Fleming announced his discovery’s infection-fighting ...

If you have ever had an allergic reaction to penicillin, you may have been told to also avoid cephalosporin antibiotics. Most ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long road to penicillin as a life-saving drug. Hannah is an Assistant Editor at ...

This escalation in the trade war is expected to have significant repercussions on the market and consumers, particularly in ...

Fleming presented his findings in 1929, but they raised little interest. He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Fleming worked ...

Penicillin G sodium 5million Units/mL; pwd for IM inj or continuous IV drip after reconstitution; contains sodium 1.68mEq per million Units. Bacteremia, pneumonia, endocarditis, pericarditis ...

Tertiary syphilis, which can develop years to decades after the initial infection, is characterized by chronic inflammatory ...

The following is a summary of “Association of Social Determinants of Health and Penicillin Allergy Labels: a case-control study,” published in the March 2025 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases by ...

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