Lower drug doses for elderly patients should be used first, with titrations of the dose as tolerated to prevent unwanted drug-related pharmacodynamic effects.
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Prostaglandins were first isolated from human semen in Sweden in the 1930s. They were so named because the researcher thought that they came from the prostate gland. In fact, prostaglandins exist and are synthesized in almost every cell of the body.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
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Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in the world. Most children who develop asthma have symptoms before they are 5 years old.
Anterior Drawer Test of the Ankle
Biceps Reflex Test
Triceps Reflex Test
The universal choking sign.
Weber test
Mutagenicity of aflatoxin B1 determined by the Ames test
