Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.