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Historic treatments for rheumatoid arthritis have included gold salts, acupuncture, a diet consisting of apples or rhubarb, nutmeg, nettles, bee venom, bracelets made of copper, prayer, rest, tooth extractions, fasting, honey, vitamins, insulin, snow collected on Christmas, magnets, and electric convulsion therapy.
When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.