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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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Never take aspirin without food because it is likely to irritate your stomach. Never give aspirin to children under age 12. Overdoses of aspirin have the potential to cause deafness.
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Bisphosphonates were first developed in the nineteenth century. They were first investigated for use in disorders of bone metabolism in the 1960s. They are now used clinically for the treatment of osteoporosis, Paget's disease, bone metastasis, multiple myeloma, and other conditions that feature bone fragility.
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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates's recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Structure of a typical prokaryotic cell
A typical oil pan with a built-in windage tray used to keep oil from being churned up by the ...
The sensing wire in a typical hot wire mass air flow sensor.
Typical laboratory emergency shower.
The genome of a typical retrovirus is shown at the top of the diagram
Early growth of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), a typical eudicot.