Talk:Beta-lactam antibiotics

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Beta-lactam antibiotics.

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The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

good graphic[edit]

the 3rd graphic from the top at this url http://wiz2.pharm.wayne.edu/module/betalactam.html shows the heterocyclic rings for the 5 major classes of lactams; to me this is a really neat way to summarize them cinnamon colbert —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.134.245 (talk) 02:01, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Layout ideas/help[edit]

The inclusion of three long, upright photos in a row is really messing up the page layout. I've tried to improve on it but have not had much success. Can anyone with more image layout experience help with this?

Also, at the end of the article, the long list leaves a lot of white space, which is unappealing. Can anyone set this up in perhaps columns?

~ Lhynard (talk) 17:00, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've now added columns. thoughts? ~ Lhynard (talk) 04:14, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of β-lactam antibiotics[edit]

I propose to move the large list at the end of the article to List of β-lactam antibiotics. For the time being, I have set up a redirect. Feedback/discussion welcome. ~ Lhynard (talk) 22:24, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have gone ahead and done the split. All of the information found in the list is now at List of β-lactam antibiotics. ~ Lhynard (talk) 04:18, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]