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Sulfonamides Revisited, With an Emphasis on Dapsone

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The sulfonamide moiety is a remarkable structure giving rise to diverse drugs in arious therapeutic areas such as antibiotics, antidiabetics, diuretics and anti-inflammatory agents. In regards to antibiotics, sulfonamides are in common use as antifungals (P. jiroveci), antiparasitics (toxoplasmosis, cyclospora, isospora, malaria) antibacterials (including against nocardia and certain ones causing STDs) Continue reading Sulfonamides Revisited, With an Emphasis on Dapsone→

Sesquicentennial of the Clinical Thermometer

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The history of the thermometer is studded with famous and familiar names. Galileo Galilei from Pisa, Santorio from Padua, and Huygens from The Hague developed temperature measuring devices, and Celsius from Uppsala, a Swede with a latinized name, Fahrenheit, from the Hanseatic city of Danzig, now in Poland, René Antoine Continue reading Sesquicentennial of the Clinical Thermometer→

Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance – A European Report Recommends Deja-Vu Action

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Sometimes one comes across a particularly well-written policy document which summarizes the status quo of antimicrobial resistance by connecting and synthesizing data from all kinds of sources into a coherent framework. The 2015 OECD Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in G7 Countries and Beyond: Economic Issues, Policies and Options for Action Continue reading Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance – A European Report Recommends Deja-Vu Action→