before the mass production of penicillin in the 1940s. “The extent to which antimicrobial medicines changed these risks, though hard to overstate, is easily taken for granted.” Growing threat ...

The second was penicillin, a discovery of an impact ... Photo: FDA Fordian methods enabled more rational methods of mass production, and increasing understanding of biology and chemistry enabled ...

This study of the comparative efficacy of tetracycline and penicillin in the treatment of alternate cases of pneumococcal pneumonia was therefore undertaken. The study comprised all patients with ...

Milton and 3DD, a London-based veteran of the international TV production and distribution market, have previously worked ...

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 ...

This video from after World War II shows the United States sending phosphates from Florida mines for fertilizer production overseas to help get countries back on track to feed their people.

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

North Korean troops fighting for Russia have been pulled from the front line for extra training after crude tactics led to massive casualties. North Korea entered the war in November when Kim Jong-un ...

WASHINGTON – A broad swathe of senior leaders and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents left the agency on Jan 31 – marking one of the biggest shake-ups in years at the pre-eminent US ...

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This is something I discovered a few years ago when I covered my first mass shooting as North America correspondent for this masthead. Sadly, it would not be my last. It was a Saturday afternoon ...