St. Joseph’s University is home to a museum unlike any other in the region, writes Diane Holliday for Saint Joseph’s ...

July 3rd holds a significant place in world history, marking moments of triumph, transformation, and cultural milestones ...

The ‘Penicillin Girls’ Made One of the World’s Most Life-Saving Discoveries Possible The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the cohort who took Alexander Fleming’s innovation ...

Antibiotics are only needed for sinus infections that are caused by bacteria. If you have a sinus infection from a virus, allergies, or another cause, there are some other treatments you can try.

PENICILLIN has had wide use since its introduction into clinical medicine, ... The past history of this patient includes a recurrent duodenal ulcer but no symptoms of hypersensitivity.

For example, a patient who has subsequently taken penicillin with no reaction or had only a family history of penicillin allergy is a candidate for de-labeling, she said.

The discovery of penicillin is considered a landmark in medical history, marking the beginning of antibiotic use. In 1928, Englishman Alexander Fleming discovered a strain of mold on some ...

“For patients that have a low-risk history for penicillin allergy, this may be a really nice population to consider doing further evaluation and testing in pregnancy,” she said.

Fleming’s work might have been relegated to the scrap heap of history if Ernst Chain, then a biochemist at Oxford University, had not found the 1929 paper nearly a decade later.Chain and Oxford ...

When, in 1943, Popular Science named penicillin as one of the top ten medicines in history, the contributing writer and physician, Iago Galdston, cited its superior infection-fighting performance ...