penicillin

Penicillin allergy affects more than 25 million people in the United States (up to 1 in 10 Americans) and has been shown to lead to particularly poor health outcomes in pregnant women and surgical patients. It is also a public health…

A shortage of an effective drug used to treat syphilis in pregnant patients and bacterial infections in children could run dry by the end of June, Pfizer warned this week. In a letter written to its customers in the United States on…

Five times more prescriptions for penicillin are being dished out compared with three weeks ago amid the strep A outbreak, experts have said.They stressed that there are 'plenty' of antibiotics in the country but said some forms of…