In 1885, the Lloyd Manufacturing Company of Albany, New York, promoted and sold "Cocaine Toothache Drops" at 15 cents per bottle! In 1914, the Harrison Narcotic Act brought the sale and distribution of this drug under federal control.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
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By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
