Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
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More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
The form and orientation of desert plants reduces heat gain from the environment and facilitates coo