College sports leaders seeking antitrust and other protections from Congress have a potential bargaining chip: School ...

Léon Krier, who has died aged 79, was most widely known for his association with King Charles who, as Prince of Wales, ...

As I flailed upon my fever bed recently, I was mumbling her poignant lyrics through my delirium — “I’m holding on for dear ...

But an Oxford team of scientists, led by Howard Florey, carried out the first successful trials. With large-scale production difficult in the UK, they took their research to the United States ...

But an Oxford team of scientists, led by Howard Florey, carried out the first successful trials. With large-scale production difficult in the UK, they took their research to the United States, where ...

On May 25, 1940, lethal doses of streptococci bacteria were used to infect eight mice. Four of these were then administered injections of penicillin, helping them to survive days to weeks, even as the ...

By 1940, the Oxford team, guided by Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley, managed to isolate and purify enough penicillin to save four lives—a major medical breakthrough, even though ...

Named after Adelaide-born pharmacologist and pathologist Howard Florey, the institute's areas of interest include Parkinson's disease, stroke, motor neurone disease, addiction, epilepsy, multiple ...

Penicillin only became widely used during World War II when mass production was developed in the 1940s in the US by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain to treat wounded soldiers.

So did Howard Florey, the pharmacologist from Adelaide who shared the Nobel Prize for his role in the making of penicillin.

Howard Walter Florey was a great man. Few men in public life, and fewer scientists, will be remembered in later years as great figures, but Florey was such a man. In the 69 years of his life he pur ...