The word drug comes from the Dutch word droog (meaning "dry"). For centuries, most drugs came from dried plants, hence the name.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.
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Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system destroys its own healthy tissues. When this occurs, white blood cells cannot distinguish between pathogens and normal cells.
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Alcohol acts as a diuretic. Eight ounces of water is needed to metabolize just 1 ounce of alcohol.
Experimental evidence of the effect of allelochemicals on plant production.
The following terms describe types of body movement that occur at the diarthrotic joints
Contributions of various His residues to the Bohr effect in hemoglobin