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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
The term bacteria was devised in the 19th century by German biologist Ferdinand Cohn. He based it on the Greek word "bakterion" meaning a small rod or staff. Cohn is considered to be the father of modern bacteriology.
In inpatient settings, adverse drug events account for an estimated one in three of all hospital adverse events. They affect approximately 2 million hospital stays every year, and prolong hospital stays by between one and five days.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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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