penicillin
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One of those compounds was probenecid, a medication originally introduced in the 1940s to help conserve scarce supplies of penicillin by reducing how much of the antibiotic was excreted in urine.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
Some important drugs, including penicillin, rely on small ring-shaped molecules that store large amounts of internal tension.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026
Common problems that could have been treated with an office visit and a few penicillin pills will blossom into heart-valve infections and organ failure.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
Which is why, a few months ago, I found myself at St Mary's Hospital in London, famous for the discovery of penicillin, preparing to receive a nerve-wracking insight into my own gut health.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
The dim hospital corridor smelled of urine and penicillin.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Some bacteria have developed the ability to break down beta-lactam antibiotics like penicillins and cephalosporins, making them ineffective.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024
The second were synthetic penicillins, modified in the lab to resist the bugs' enzymes.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2013
Sulfonamides ceased to be effective in treating it in the 1940s; penicillins and tetracyclines lost effectiveness in the 1970s and ’80s; and fluoroquinolones were taken off the treatment table in 2007.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 8, 2013
They are also closely related to the penicillins.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2011
To Dr. J. George Feinberg, a U.S. immunologist working at Britain's Beecham Research Laboratories, the killing power of penicillins made no sense.
From Time Magazine Archive
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