Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
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Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.
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Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
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Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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