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General Practice Today
1 July 1968
…time-consuming and heroic, if relatively ineffective, treatment. Now illness is often contained quickly before it becomes serious and is usually treated by the administration of effective medicines, such as antibiotics,…
Infant and Child Health
1 December 1975
…and effective antibiotics in addition to the establishment of the NHS, the evolution of the welfare services and the significant advances in the medical speciality of paediatrics have all contributed…
Medicines Which Affect the Mind
10 January 1975
…with the antibiotics in the 1940s and 1950s. Yet other informed individuals see the recent expansion of psychiatric treatment based on tranquillisers and kindred medicines as a significant threat to…
Birth Impairments
9 January 1978
…diseases with antibiotics. The factors and mechanisms which deflect foetal development from a normal course remain, as yet, unclear. The scope for preventing the birth of impaired infants is therefore…
Pharmaceutical Innovation: Recent Trends, Future Prospects
1 October 1983
…as a more indirect role in facilitating therapeutic progress. Thus the development and refinement of effective local and general anaesthetic agents, muscle relaxants and antibiotics have facilitated a radical extension…
Cystic Fibrosis
1 March 1986
…25 years. The reasons for this improvement reflect a consortium of factors: earlier diagnosis, the availability and appropriate use of effective antibiotics and improved patterns of health care. They have…
The changing role of the NHS over time
14 August 2023
…development of vaccines, antibiotics, and improved living conditions greatly reduced the morbidity and mortality associated with many of these diseases (Office of Health Economics, 1974). As the life expectancy of…
Summary Report of the OHE/EFPIA Antibacterial Roundtable
1 November 2011
Antibacterial drug resistance is a serious and growing worldwide problem that threatens our ability to cure traditionally treatable diseases and to successfully perform numerous surgical procedures that rely on antibacterials….
New Drugs to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance: Analysis of EU Policy Options
1 April 2011
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to drugs is a natural and unavoidable consequence of treating infectious diseases. A growing global public health threat, AMR reduces the chances of successfully treating patients with…