penicillin

One of those compounds was probenecid, a medication originally introduced in the 1940s to help conserve scarce supplies of penicillin by reducing how much of the antibiotic was excreted in urine.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

This reflected portfolio changes, a poor season for sales of cough-and-cold products in Europe, and a hit from lower prices for a key penicillin ingredient, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

The discovery began with an unexpected laboratory result, similar to many famous scientific breakthroughs including X-rays, penicillin, Viagra and modern weight loss medications.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2026

He added: "We had this problem last year with penicillin, it's an ongoing issue but it's worsening. We've just been informed that another anti-coagulation medication, apixaban, is now going out of stock."

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

“All right, so, B. cepacia is a hardy bacterium. It’s so adaptive that it actually feeds on penicillin instead of being attacked by it. So our first line of defense is...”

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

Some bacteria have developed the ability to break down beta-lactam antibiotics like penicillins and cephalosporins, making them ineffective.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

"The fungus growing on the hedgehog was releasing penicillins," explained Prof Holmes.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2022

The second were synthetic penicillins, modified in the lab to resist the bugs' enzymes.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2013

It steadily gained resistance against entire classes of antibiotics: first the penicillins in the 1960s, then the tetracyclines in the 1980s, and Cipro and its chemical cousins, known as fluoroquinolones, in the 1990s.

From Scientific American ● May 4, 2012

Early penicillins were active mainly against the berry-shaped microbes or cocci, such as streptococci, staphylococci and pneumococci.

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