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A former Devon GP charged with killing an elderly patient by prescribing the wrong medication is acquitted.
The death of a man who took penicillin is more likely to have been caused by heart disease, a jury is told.
A former Devon GP charged with killing an elderly patient denies she knew he was allergic to penicillin.
Researchers decode the DNA sequence of the fungus which produces penicillin, ahead of the 80th anniversary of its discovery.
Scientists have discovered how a bacterium which causes pneumonia has become resistant to penicillin.
Some 20 million Britons suffer from allergies. Yet a century ago allergies were hardly heard of. Could this remarkable rise be a "fashionable response" to the modern world?
Donald Dewar has been voted a greater Scot than the inventors of penicillin and the telephone, according to a new survey.
A mother who died after being given penicillin in hospital had told doctors she was allergic to the drug, an inquest hears.
Until now, animal rights protesters have made all the noise in a dispute over a new research lab in Oxford. This weekend the city's famed academics will hit back.
Antibiotic "stalwarts" like penicillin and amoxicillin often fail to work, US research has suggested.
A look at what the discovery of penicillin has meant for medicine and whether it will continue to be used.
When antibiotics were first discovered people thought they were a panacea - but now they are losing their effect.
Antibiotics including penicillin may help prevent nerve damage in a wide variety of neurological diseases, research finds.
No charges are to be brought following the hospital death of a woman who was wrongly given penicillin.
Up to 170 people could be made redundant after production is halted at a factory in Northumberland.
Doctors treating children with a common throat infection should use newer drugs, not penicillin, researchers say.
Children should not be given penicillin if they have a sore throat, doctors say.
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the discovery of penicillin, scientists search for the best examples of coffee cup mould.
Scientists ask for pictures of dirty, furry coffee cups to mark the 75th anniversary of the discovery of penicillin.
World-changing discoveries such as the stethoscope, penicillin or DNA have often had very simple everyday origins.
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