Alexander Fleming – Singapore SLING

The resistible rise of antibiotic resistance

This is a longer version of an article that appeared in The Straits Times on 16 November 2016. To read the article, click here. By Jenő Doby [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In the 1840s, the Hungarian physician, Ignaz Semmelweis, made a startling observation: women giving birth at his hospital’s maternity clinic were five times…

#AntibioticResistance II: History of Antibiotics

November 17, 2015November 19, 2015Nahal HaghbinAntibiotic awareness / BlogLeave a comment

When we think of the discovery of antibiotics, we commonly think of Sir Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin in 1928. The first time it was used for medical treatment was years later in the 1940s, after which it changed the face of modern medicine. The period between then 1940s and 1960s is often referred to…