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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
Despite claims by manufacturers, the supplement known as Ginkgo biloba was shown in a study of more than 3,000 participants to be ineffective in reducing development of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in older people.
Interferon was scarce and expensive until 1980, when the interferon gene was inserted into bacteria using recombinant DNA technology, allowing for mass cultivation and purification from bacterial cultures.
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.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.