antiseptics

plural of antiseptic

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Noun
  • Based on data from more than 100 countries between 2016 and 2023, the health agency determined that resistance to antibiotics rose in approximately 40% of infection samples.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Antimicrobials include antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, and antiparasitics—all used to prevent and treat infectious disease.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The cause of the crash remains under investigation, but police do not believe drugs or alcohol played a role.
    Jason Green, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The platform, called Multicellular Integrated Brains or miBrains, recreates key features of real human brain tissue, offering a more accurate way to test drugs and understand disorders like Alzheimer’s.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Patients who’ve struggled to afford the pricey medicines shared hope the price could be reached.
    Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Other medicines — like antidepressants and cold medications — can also change the bacteria in your gut.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Always check with your healthcare provider before combining supplements with prescription medications.
    Trang Tran, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The study also found that starting and stopping certain medications — particularly PPIs, SSRIs and some antibiotics — could cause microbiome shifts.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hullar will be remembered in the biochemistry field for his 1966 discovery of a chemical reaction known as the Hanessian-Hullar reaction, which has since become foundational in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and antibiotics.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The chemical industry is central to the world economy, producing products from pharmaceuticals and fertilisers, to plastics, paints, electronics, cleaning products, and toiletries.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some bridesmaids prayed, others massaged her head, while others burned Palo Santo and turned to natural remedies.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This Anker portable charger remedies that situation by magnetically attaching to the back of an iPhone 14, 15, 16, or 17 for wireless charging.
    Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The award of this prestigious prize to pioneering research in quantum physics coincides with the 100th anniversary of the birth of quantum mechanics – a revolutionary scientific theory that forms the foundation of modern physics.
    Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Here’s how that research, pioneered more than 40 years ago, has led to new frontiers in modern physics, as well as 2025’s Nobel Prize in physics.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
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