Skin testing, computerized support tool can improve antibiotic use in hospital inpatients
Confirming whether or not a recorded penicillin allergy is real could reduce negative effects of alternate antibiotics (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - March 6, 2017 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
WATCH: Penicillin mold cultured by Alexander Fleming auctioned for more than $14,000
A mold sample may seem like an unlikely prize, but a sample of penicillin mold pulled in more than $14,000 when it was sold at auction this week in the U.K. (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Rare penicillin mold auctioned for more than $14K
Scientist Alexander Fleming discovered the mold could kill bacteria. (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Alexander Fleming late to penicillin | Letters
Once again the myth that Alexander Fleming “discovered” penicillin is repeated in your article (Report, 2 March). The antibacterial activity of penicillium mould had been known for at least four decades before Fleming. In particular, the eminent surgeon Joseph Lister, who introduced antisepsis to surgery and treatment of infections, experimented with penicillium (its identity confirmed in his elegant drawings) and, along with his mycologist brother Arthur, showed its antibacterial effect in the laboratory. He then went on in 1884 to treat two people with infected wounds with the green juice extracted from his mould. On...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 3, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Letters Tags: Medical research Antibiotics Science Society Medicine Education UK news Source Type: news
Old Penicillin Mold Auctioned For More Than $14,000
An auction house in London has sold a dish containing a sample of the original mold that made Penicillin for over $14,000. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - March 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
