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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
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Asthma attacks and symptoms usually get started by specific triggers (such as viruses, allergies, gases, and air particles). You should talk to your doctor about these triggers and find ways to avoid or get rid of them.
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Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.
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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.
Research Methods
Selected Oral Contraceptives
Selected Drugs for Angina and Myocardial Infarction
Selected Topical Corticosteroids for Dermatological and Oral Lesions
Topic Media
Population age 65 and over and age 85 and over, selected years 1900-2008 and projected 2010-2050.