In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
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Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
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The term pharmacology is derived from the Greek words pharmakon("claim, medicine, poison, or remedy") and logos ("study").
A simplified food web from an African savannah ecosystem
Mosaic of Charge-Coupled Devices
The recent mass upheavals in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria gave political scientists a cha