The FDA announced the approval of a new treatment for pneumonia caused by certain difficult-to-treat bacteria, offering hope ...

The significance of these developments in hastening the mass production of penicillin cannot be overstated: “At the beginning of 1942 they didn't have any [penicillin], and by the end of ‘42 they had ...

Chain, E., Florey, H. W., Gardner, A. D., Heatley, N. G., Jennings, M. A., and Orr-Ewing, J., Sanders, A. G., Lancet, ii, 226 (1940). Abraham, E. P., Chain, E ...

and the government pushed industry into producing penicillin, recruiting more than 21 chemical companies into production. From January to May 1943, only 400 million units of penicillin had been ...

In the 1940s, two scientists, Florey and Chain, were able to produce a pure form of penicillin, which Fleming had been unable to do. They were able to begin large-scale production of penicillin.

Many U.S. grocery stores now offer at least some meat or poultry that is raised without antibiotics, sometimes even at below-average prices for all meats of that type, but shoppers must become ...

Indeed, since their 1960s heyday, the production of novel antibiotics has declined markedly and it’s been 30 years since a major new class of antibiotics for clinical use has been discovered. There ...