A full-page advertisement in the April 3, 1999 edition of the Washington Post announcing the merger of what had been Upjohn & Pharmacia with Monsanto inspired the first version of this account.  The new combine was to be known to the world simply as Pharmacia, The announcement, led to the suspicion at that time that [...]

The word PILL has become a sort of universal term for almost any solid medication that is taking by mouth. Newspaper accounts will often announce the discovery of some new drug with a story that starts Scientists have discovered a new pill that…. The word also makes frequent appearances in news accounts [...]

    It was well recognized by then that the structure and enzyme systems that allow bacteria to thrive are very different from their mammalian counterparts. Scientist devoted considerable effort from the late nineteenth century on to the search of chemicals that would exploit those differences so as to specifically eradicate bacterial cells. A tantalizing early [...]