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| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | INFLUENZA $400: Influenza is caused by these infectious microbes, so antibiotics won't help viruses |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | 6 DRUGS $800: Used to treat everything from acne to the plague, tetracycline is this type of drug that fights bacterial infections antibiotics |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SCIENCE $1200: A study of these notorious bacteria, genus Escherichia, showed they swarm to fight antibiotics & even dead ones participate E. coli |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | MEDICINE $200: In 1959 methicillin was one of the first medications introduced to cope with bacteria resistant to these drugs antibiotics |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | U.N. OBSERVANCES $1000: An annual November "Awareness Week" showcases the rising global problem of resistance to this important class of drugs antibiotics |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $1600: Discovered in 1943, streptomycin was the second major one of these wonder drugs & the first effective against tuberculosis antibiotics |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ODD FUTURE $1200: Drug-resistant bacteria could end the 70-year medical era of these, such as amoxicillin & the good old Z-Pak antibiotics |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | BE A SMART PATIENT $800: Don't ask for these drugs like Cipro unless really needed; for one thing, they can kill healthy bacteria in your intestines antibiotics |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | MED. ABBREV. $800: It's the "R" in MRSA, a staph infection that is impervious to antibiotics resistant |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION $1600: CDC researchers hit mosquitos with insecticide to test for this trait that makes antibiotics less effective on certain germs resistance |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | TRUE BLOOD $2,000 (Daily Double): Some kinds of white blood cells produce these, proteins that destroy bacteria, viruses & other invaders antibodies |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | THE CDC SAYS $400: This is scary-- "almost every type of bacteria has become stronger & less responsive to" treatment with these drugs antibiotics |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | LINE FROM THE TV SHOW $1600: Brittany: "I've been here since first period... I took all my antibiotics at the same time & now I can't remember how to leave" Glee |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | THE "ANTI"-CATEGORY $400: Amoxicillin & ampicillin are types of these antibiotics |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | MEDICATIONS $200: Pneumonia may be treated with oral antibiotics, but if you're hospitalized, you'll get the drugs this way intravenously |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | DAIRY PRODUCTS $600: Milk is tested for these, such as penicillin, which may have been used to treat cows that fell ill antibiotics |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | ANTIBIOTICS $200: Wycillin is a trade name for this moldy oldie of antibiotic agents penicillin |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | ANTIBIOTICS $400: Antibiotics don't work against viruses; they do work against these, like the tubercle bacillus bacteria |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | ANTIBIOTICS $600: Cefamandole is used to treat this inflammation of a membrane of the abdominal wall caused by a ruptured appendix peritonitis |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | ANTIBIOTICS $800: While using metronidazole, do not consume this unless you enjoy cramps, headaches & profuse sweating alcohol |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | ANTIBIOTICS $1000: This antibiotic often used to treat acne was discovered in 1948 tetracycline |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | WHAT'S UP, PEDIATRICIAN? $200: Ah yes, impetigo, an infection affecting this, common in kids in summer; we can treat it with antibiotics skin |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | ORAL EXAM $1600: In 1995 scientists found natural antibiotics on these of cows; people probably have them too tongues |
| #4629, aired 2004-10-21 | GOING TO THE DOCTOR $1000: Otitis media & otitis externa are common infections of this body part; doc may prescribe drops or antibiotics for it your ears |
| #4618, aired 2004-10-06 | FAMILY MEMBERS $1000: Safer antibiotics & penicillin have largely replaced this family of drugs first used in the 1930s sulfas |
| #4524, aired 2004-04-15 | THE PLAGUE $400: If detected in time, plague is treatable with these drugs like streptomycin antibiotics |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | VETERINARY AFFAIRS $600: Vets use antibiotics on fish suffering from "rot" of this, whether dorsal or caudal fin |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | WHAT AILS "IA" $400: Before antibiotics, the lung diseases collectively known as this killed about 1/3 of their victims pneumonia |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | STUDIES SHOW... $300: 45% of these products were found to be antibacterial, possibly leading to drug-resistant bacteria soaps |
| #3862, aired 2001-05-22 | GETTING SCIENTIFIC $400: From words meaning "against life", this class of drugs often derived from fungi is used against bacteria Antibiotics |
| #3663, aired 2000-07-05 | 20TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1943 Selman Waksman discovered streptomycin, a drug classified under this term he coined in 1941 antibiotics |
| #3182, aired 1998-06-02 | BUSINESS FOUNDERS $1,100 (Daily Double): The company founded by this man in 1876 developed insulin, many antibiotics & Prozac Eli Lilly |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | MEDICINE $600: From the Greek for "against life", these substances kill or inhibit the growth of infectious organisms Antibiotics |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | CHEMISTRY $600: Penicillin, the first of these drugs, comes from a fungus antibiotics |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Tetracycline is one of the most common of these drugs used to fight bacterial infections antibiotics |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | MEDICINE MEN $800: It's what Paul Ehrlich called the chemicals he shot at microbes to kill them magic bullets |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | FOOD FOR THOUGHT $400: Sick people beware: this mineral in milk & yogurt can impair the absorption of some antibiotics calcium |
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