According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.
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Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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The word drug comes from the Dutch word droog (meaning "dry"). For centuries, most drugs came from dried plants, hence the name.
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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.
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People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.
Historian James Merrell notes several errors in Benjamin West’s famous 1771 painting, William Penn’s
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