On Sept. 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming woke up to check on his experiments investigating bacterial growth — and accidentally discovered the world's first antibiotic. The Scottish physicist and ...

Kanata's Dr. Suman Khulbe, pictured here in an ice bath, 'admits' she sexually abused one male patient and "engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct" with two others she ...

THE use of peanut oil and beeswax suspensions of amorphous calcium penicillin and of the sodium and potassium salts of crystalline penicillin G for delaying its absorption when injected ...

You’ve been itching to avoid this antibiotic — maybe for no reason. Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by a Scottish bacteriologist. The medication has since become a common treatment for a range of ...

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Clinicians across the Northern Territory could go without sufficient amounts of a life-saving rheumatic heart disease medication in August. The rate of rheumatic heart disease in First Nations ...

Given their fragility, newborns with a suspected, serious bacterial infection are advised to be admitted to a hospital and receive intravenous antibiotics. However, hospital admission is often not ...

Pregnant women with syphilis can transmit it through the placenta to the fetus or at birth to the neonate; in such cases the baby is said to have congenital syphilis. This continues to be a ...

Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Todd Pletcher has been ordered to serve a 10-day suspension and pay a $25,000 fine by the California Horse Racing Board. Trainer Darrell Vienna has agreed to ...