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In 1886, William Bates reported on the discovery of a substance produced by the adrenal gland that turned out to be epinephrine (adrenaline). In 1904, this drug was first artificially synthesized by Friedrich Stolz.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
Though newer “smart” infusion pumps are increasingly becoming more sophisticated, they cannot prevent all programming and administration errors. Health care professionals that use smart infusion pumps must still practice the rights of medication administration and have other professionals double-check all high-risk infusions.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.