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  1. “What’s in a name?”

    Antidepressant use is on the rise in the U.S.– and with it, the proliferation of new mood-management drug names. At the same time, the Tech Right’s fascination with The Lord of the Rings, has occasioned a flood of company and product names drawn from that fantasy series. It can be very confusing, as a new game from the folks at Vercel demonstrates. Can you tell if a name is an antidressant drug or a Tolkien character?

    Find out here.

    * Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II)

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    As we navigate nomenclature, we might recall that it was on this date in 1941 that first injection of penicillin into a patient was administered by physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England.

    In 1928, Alexander Fleming had discovered the anitbacterial properties of the Penicillium mold. But he had little luck convincing his medical colleagues of its value: penicillin was so difficult to isolate that its development as a drug seemed impossible. After Fletcher’s experiment and others– all of which showed promise, but “failed” when the doctors ran out of penicillin– Fleming used the hospital’s entire supply of penicillin to cure a patient of an infection of the nervous system (streptococcal meningitis) which would otherwise have been fatal. Having established medical efficacy, the doctors were able to convince labs in the U.K and the U.S. to pursue large-scale fermentation of the mold and refinments in its medical form. By June 1942, just enough US penicillin was available to treat ten patients. But with the U.S. entry into World War II, the War Production Board undertook to make penicillin available to fighting forces across the conflict. By June, 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced.

    Charles Fletcher (source) #AlexanderFleming #antidepressants #CharlesFletcher #culture #Drugs #history #LordOfTheRings #medicine #penicillin #Science #Tolkien
  2. “What’s in a name?”

    Antidepressant use is on the rise in the U.S.– and with it, the proliferation of new mood-management drug names. At the same time, the Tech Right’s fascination with The Lord of the Rings, has occasioned a flood of company and product names drawn from that fantasy series. It can be very confusing, as a new game from the folks at Vercel demonstrates. Can you tell if a name is an antidressant drug or a Tolkien character?

    Find out here.

    * Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II)

    ###

    As we navigate nomenclature, we might recall that it was on this date in 1941 that first injection of penicillin into a patient was administered by physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England.

    In 1928, Alexander Fleming had discovered the anitbacterial properties of the Penicillium mold. But he had little luck convincing his medical colleagues of its value: penicillin was so difficult to isolate that its development as a drug seemed impossible. After Fletcher’s experiment and others– all of which showed promise, but “failed” when the doctors ran out of penicillin– Fleming used the hospital’s entire supply of penicillin to cure a patient of an infection of the nervous system (streptococcal meningitis) which would otherwise have been fatal. Having established medical efficacy, the doctors were able to convince labs in the U.K and the U.S. to pursue large-scale fermentation of the mold and refinments in its medical form. By June 1942, just enough US penicillin was available to treat ten patients. But with the U.S. entry into World War II, the War Production Board undertook to make penicillin available to fighting forces across the conflict. By June, 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced.

    Charles Fletcher (source) #AlexanderFleming #antidepressants #CharlesFletcher #culture #Drugs #history #LordOfTheRings #medicine #penicillin #Science #Tolkien
  3. “What’s in a name?”

    Antidepressant use is on the rise in the U.S.– and with it, the proliferation of new mood-management drug names. At the same time, the Tech Right’s fascination with The Lord of the Rings, has occasioned a flood of company and product names drawn from that fantasy series. It can be very confusing, as a new game from the folks at Vercel demonstrates. Can you tell if a name is an antidressant drug or a Tolkien character?

    Find out here.

    * Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II)

    ###

    As we navigate nomenclature, we might recall that it was on this date in 1941 that first injection of penicillin into a patient was administered by physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England.

    In 1928, Alexander Fleming had discovered the anitbacterial properties of the Penicillium mold. But he had little luck convincing his medical colleagues of its value: penicillin was so difficult to isolate that its development as a drug seemed impossible. After Fletcher’s experiment and others– all of which showed promise, but “failed” when the doctors ran out of penicillin– Fleming used the hospital’s entire supply of penicillin to cure a patient of an infection of the nervous system (streptococcal meningitis) which would otherwise have been fatal. Having established medical efficacy, the doctors were able to convince labs in the U.K and the U.S. to pursue large-scale fermentation of the mold and refinments in its medical form. By June 1942, just enough US penicillin was available to treat ten patients. But with the U.S. entry into World War II, the War Production Board undertook to make penicillin available to fighting forces across the conflict. By June, 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced.

    Charles Fletcher (source) #AlexanderFleming #antidepressants #CharlesFletcher #culture #Drugs #history #LordOfTheRings #medicine #penicillin #Science #Tolkien
  4. “What’s in a name?”

    Antidepressant use is on the rise in the U.S.– and with it, the proliferation of new mood-management drug names. At the same time, the Tech Right’s fascination with The Lord of the Rings, has occasioned a flood of company and product names drawn from that fantasy series. It can be very confusing, as a new game from the folks at Vercel demonstrates. Can you tell if a name is an antidressant drug or a Tolkien character?

    Find out here.

    * Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II)

    ###

    As we navigate nomenclature, we might recall that it was on this date in 1941 that first injection of penicillin into a patient was administered by physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England.

    In 1928, Alexander Fleming had discovered the anitbacterial properties of the Penicillium mold. But he had little luck convincing his medical colleagues of its value: penicillin was so difficult to isolate that its development as a drug seemed impossible. After Fletcher’s experiment and others– all of which showed promise, but “failed” when the doctors ran out of penicillin– Fleming used the hospital’s entire supply of penicillin to cure a patient of an infection of the nervous system (streptococcal meningitis) which would otherwise have been fatal. Having established medical efficacy, the doctors were able to convince labs in the U.K and the U.S. to pursue large-scale fermentation of the mold and refinments in its medical form. By June 1942, just enough US penicillin was available to treat ten patients. But with the U.S. entry into World War II, the War Production Board undertook to make penicillin available to fighting forces across the conflict. By June, 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced.

    Charles Fletcher (source) #AlexanderFleming #antidepressants #CharlesFletcher #culture #Drugs #history #LordOfTheRings #medicine #penicillin #Science #Tolkien
  5. “What’s in a name?”

    Antidepressant use is on the rise in the U.S.– and with it, the proliferation of new mood-management drug names. At the same time, the Tech Right’s fascination with The Lord of the Rings, has occasioned a flood of company and product names drawn from that fantasy series. It can be very confusing, as a new game from the folks at Vercel demonstrates. Can you tell if a name is an antidressant drug or a Tolkien character?

    Find out here.

    * Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II)

    ###

    As we navigate nomenclature, we might recall that it was on this date in 1941 that first injection of penicillin into a patient was administered by physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England.

    In 1928, Alexander Fleming had discovered the anitbacterial properties of the Penicillium mold. But he had little luck convincing his medical colleagues of its value: penicillin was so difficult to isolate that its development as a drug seemed impossible. After Fletcher’s experiment and others– all of which showed promise, but “failed” when the doctors ran out of penicillin– Fleming used the hospital’s entire supply of penicillin to cure a patient of an infection of the nervous system (streptococcal meningitis) which would otherwise have been fatal. Having established medical efficacy, the doctors were able to convince labs in the U.K and the U.S. to pursue large-scale fermentation of the mold and refinments in its medical form. By June 1942, just enough US penicillin was available to treat ten patients. But with the U.S. entry into World War II, the War Production Board undertook to make penicillin available to fighting forces across the conflict. By June, 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced.

    Charles Fletcher (source) #AlexanderFleming #antidepressants #CharlesFletcher #culture #Drugs #history #LordOfTheRings #medicine #penicillin #Science #Tolkien
  6. 🧫 Today in History (9/15/1928):

    Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.

    Penicillin has saved over 200 million lives since its discovery. 💊

  7. In questi giorni si fa un gran parlare (giustamente) del rischio di antibiotico-resistenza, tanto che l'AIFA ha rilasciato un'app specifica per monitorarne l'uso. “Un giorno i batteri saranno più forti dei farmaci” scriveva quasi un secolo fa #AlexanderFleming, papà della penicillina. Dalla muffa alla lacrima, fino all’antibiotico, la vita dello scienziato che ha cambiato il mondo, morto l'11 marzo 1955 - Famiglia Cristiana famigliacristiana.it/articolo/

  8. In questi giorni si fa un gran parlare (giustamente) del rischio di antibiotico-resistenza, tanto che l'AIFA ha rilasciato un'app specifica per monitorarne l'uso. “Un giorno i batteri saranno più forti dei farmaci” scriveva quasi un secolo fa #AlexanderFleming, papà della penicillina. Dalla muffa alla lacrima, fino all’antibiotico, la vita dello scienziato che ha cambiato il mondo, morto l'11 marzo 1955 - Famiglia Cristiana famigliacristiana.it/articolo/

  9. In questi giorni si fa un gran parlare (giustamente) del rischio di antibiotico-resistenza, tanto che l'AIFA ha rilasciato un'app specifica per monitorarne l'uso. “Un giorno i batteri saranno più forti dei farmaci” scriveva quasi un secolo fa #AlexanderFleming, papà della penicillina. Dalla muffa alla lacrima, fino all’antibiotico, la vita dello scienziato che ha cambiato il mondo, morto l'11 marzo 1955 - Famiglia Cristiana famigliacristiana.it/articolo/

  10. In questi giorni si fa un gran parlare (giustamente) del rischio di antibiotico-resistenza, tanto che l'AIFA ha rilasciato un'app specifica per monitorarne l'uso. “Un giorno i batteri saranno più forti dei farmaci” scriveva quasi un secolo fa #AlexanderFleming, papà della penicillina. Dalla muffa alla lacrima, fino all’antibiotico, la vita dello scienziato che ha cambiato il mondo, morto l'11 marzo 1955 - Famiglia Cristiana famigliacristiana.it/articolo/

  11. In questi giorni si fa un gran parlare (giustamente) del rischio di antibiotico-resistenza, tanto che l'AIFA ha rilasciato un'app specifica per monitorarne l'uso. “Un giorno i batteri saranno più forti dei farmaci” scriveva quasi un secolo fa #AlexanderFleming, papà della penicillina. Dalla muffa alla lacrima, fino all’antibiotico, la vita dello scienziato che ha cambiato il mondo, morto l'11 marzo 1955 - Famiglia Cristiana famigliacristiana.it/articolo/

  12. I sometimes hold it half a sin
    To put in words the grief I feel;
    For words, like Nature, half reveal
    And half conceal the Soul within.
    In Memoriam L.M.R.
    #Tennyson 🥂
    #LisaRome 🥂
    #AlexanderFleming 🥂
    #LucilleBall 🥂
    #RichardHofstadter 🥂

  13. I sometimes hold it half a sin
    To put in words the grief I feel;
    For words, like Nature, half reveal
    And half conceal the Soul within.
    In Memoriam L.M.R.
    #Tennyson 🥂
    #LisaRome 🥂
    #AlexanderFleming 🥂
    #LucilleBall 🥂
    #RichardHofstadter 🥂

  14. I sometimes hold it half a sin
    To put in words the grief I feel;
    For words, like Nature, half reveal
    And half conceal the Soul within.
    In Memoriam L.M.R.
    #Tennyson 🥂
    #LisaRome 🥂
    #AlexanderFleming 🥂
    #LucilleBall 🥂
    #RichardHofstadter 🥂

  15. I sometimes hold it half a sin
    To put in words the grief I feel;
    For words, like Nature, half reveal
    And half conceal the Soul within.
    In Memoriam L.M.R.
    #Tennyson 🥂
    #LisaRome 🥂
    #AlexanderFleming 🥂
    #LucilleBall 🥂
    #RichardHofstadter 🥂

  16. I sometimes hold it half a sin
    To put in words the grief I feel;
    For words, like Nature, half reveal
    And half conceal the Soul within.
    In Memoriam L.M.R.
    #Tennyson 🥂
    #LisaRome 🥂
    #AlexanderFleming 🥂
    #LucilleBall 🥂
    #RichardHofstadter 🥂

  17. #Datreveno #AlexanderFleming #Kuracilo #Penicilino

    Je ĉi dato en 1881 naskiĝis Alexander Fleming, bakteriologo, kiu pro sia malordigita laborejo malkovris hazarde la unuan antibiotikon penicilino, kiam unu el lia eksperimentoj fungo malpurigis, kvankam li ne povis izoli la gravan substancon el la fungo. eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexande
    Bildo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Syn

  18. #Datreveno #AlexanderFleming #Kuracilo #Penicilino

    Je ĉi dato en 1881 naskiĝis Alexander Fleming, bakteriologo, kiu pro sia malordigita laborejo malkovris hazarde la unuan antibiotikon penicilino, kiam unu el lia eksperimentoj fungo malpurigis, kvankam li ne povis izoli la gravan substancon el la fungo. eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexande
    Bildo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Syn

  19. #Datreveno #AlexanderFleming #Kuracilo #Penicilino

    Je ĉi dato en 1881 naskiĝis Alexander Fleming, bakteriologo, kiu pro sia malordigita laborejo malkovris hazarde la unuan antibiotikon penicilino, kiam unu el lia eksperimentoj fungo malpurigis, kvankam li ne povis izoli la gravan substancon el la fungo. eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexande
    Bildo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Syn

  20. .> Yet wrapped up in penicillin’s serendipitous beginnings were hints of challenges to come. “It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them,” Fleming warned in 1945 when he received the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology, together with Florey and Chain, “and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body.”
    .> His remarks proved ominously prescient: penicillin-resistant strains of S. aureus began appearing in hospitals just years after the drug was introduced.
    ...
    .> But even Fleming did not anticipate the magnitude of the resistance problem to come. In the 1950s, amid postwar outbreaks of dysentery, Japanese researchers led by Tsutomu Watanabe began to encounter bacteria simultaneously resistant to multiple drugs—impossibly unlikely for pathogens acquiring random mutations. By 1955, researchers were reporting several strains of Shigella dysenteriae resistant to the same four antibiotics at once. Even worse, the resistance itself was contagious. Related species, when mixed with multidrug-resistant S. dysenteriae, also became resistant to multiple antibiotics.
    .> “Resistance works differently in the bacterium,” explains Stuart Levy
    - https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2014/05/superbug
    #AlexanderFleming #Penicillin #TsutomuWatanabe #WatanabeTsutomu #StuartLevy #Antibiotics #AntibioticResistnace #HGT #HorizontalGeneTransfer

  21. #AlexanderFleming (6 de agosto de 1881 - 11 de marzo de 1955)

    "No son los vestíbulos de mármol los que proporcionan la grandeza intelectual, sino el alma y el cerebro del investigador"

  22. #AlexanderFleming (6 de agosto de 1881 - 11 de marzo de 1955)

    "No son los vestíbulos de mármol los que proporcionan la grandeza intelectual, sino el alma y el cerebro del investigador"

  23. #AlexanderFleming (6 de agosto de 1881 - 11 de marzo de 1955)

    "No son los vestíbulos de mármol los que proporcionan la grandeza intelectual, sino el alma y el cerebro del investigador"

  24. #AlexanderFleming (6 de agosto de 1881 - 11 de marzo de 1955)

    "No son los vestíbulos de mármol los que proporcionan la grandeza intelectual, sino el alma y el cerebro del investigador"