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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
Ether was used widely for surgeries but became less popular because of its flammability and its tendency to cause vomiting. In England, it was quickly replaced by chloroform, but this agent caused many deaths and lost popularity.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.