Sentences with phrase «penicillin starting»

The new study by NYU Langone Medical Center researchers reveals that mice given lifelong low doses of penicillin starting in the last week of pregnancy or during nursing were more susceptible to obesity and metabolic abnormalities than mice exposed to the antibiotic later in life.

«We saw increased fat mass in both penicillin groups, but it was higher in the mice who received penicillin starting in the womb,» Dr. Cox says.

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Rheumatic fever, which usually starts as strep throat, was essentially eliminated as a life - threatening disease with the use of penicillin in the early 20th century.

It was the first bacterium in which penicillin resistance was found — in 1947, just four years after the drug started being mass - produced.

The paradigm of medicine as a semi-useless and semi-horrifying profession began to shift with the development of antibiotics — starting with penicillin in 1928.