Penicillin

Kia Makarechi

Bringing Medical And Dental Care To Guatemala

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 09.19.2011

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Nina Yousefzadeh is a clinical pharmacist living in New York. When she was going through school, her friends started calling her "penicillin girl." ...

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Understanding The Pros And Cons Of Antibiotics

Dr. Cara Natterson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Cara Natterson

The antibiotic rejecters generally understand the concepts of inappropriate antibiotic use and resistance, but their rationale isn't completely right either. This group will do anything possible to avoid the use of antibiotics.

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Temporary Fix Helps Patients Around Drug Allergy

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.17.2011

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WASHINGTON — Having a bad reaction to penicillin as a child doesn't guarantee you're still allergic decades later. And if the oncologist says yo...

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Tectonic Shift Shortens Villaraigosa's Workday to Two Minutes (Satire)

Brock Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brock Cohen

Antonio Villaraigosa became the first public official of a major U.S. city to officially announce that the quake's massive tectonic shifts have in fact trimmed his workday.

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The Fatal Prescription Pad

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

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Deepak Chopra

It's well known that the most expensive medical technology in America is a doctor's ballpoint pen. But now we discover that the prescription pad can also be deadly.

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More Than Half Million Kids React Badly To Drugs

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.17.2011

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CHICAGO — More than half a million U.S. children yearly have bad reactions or side effects from widely used medicines that require medical treat...

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Feeling Normal?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

I grew up in a place, Bayside, New York; a place where, when I mentioned Nietzsche, the woman who lived above me asked, "if you take Penicillin, will it cure that?"

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The Painting Whisperer vs The Anxiety of Abstraction: Annie Lapin

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

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Kimberly Brooks

Take for a moment the spectrum of Realism and the raucous jazz of Abstraction in painting and slide somewhere in the middle. Over to the left is real...

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