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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
In the ancient and medieval periods, dysentery killed about ? of all babies before they reach 12 months of age. The disease was transferred through contaminated drinking water, because there was no way to adequately dispose of sewage, which contaminated the water.
Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
Human neurons are so small that they require a microscope in order to be seen. However, some neurons can be up to 3 feet long, such as those that extend from the spinal cord to the toes.
The largest baby ever born weighed more than 23 pounds but died just 11 hours after his birth in 1879. The largest surviving baby was born in October 2009 in Sumatra, Indonesia, and weighed an astounding 19.2 pounds at birth.
The approval of a new drug is a four-stage process: (1) preclinical investigation, (2) clinical inve
Blocked at every turn by congressional Republicans who hated him, President Obama turned to techniqu
The world has been horrified recently at a U.S. Congress so polarized and paralyzed that it cannot p
This engraving by William Russell Birch shows Congress Hall (left), which was occupied by Congress f

