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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.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
Multiple sclerosis is a condition wherein the body's nervous system is weakened by an autoimmune reaction that attacks the myelin sheaths of neurons.
Symptoms of kidney problems include a loss of appetite, back pain (which may be sudden and intense), chills, abdominal pain, fluid retention, nausea, the urge to urinate, vomiting, and fever.