Prostaglandins were first isolated from human semen in Sweden in the 1930s. They were so named because the researcher thought that they came from the prostate gland. In fact, prostaglandins exist and are synthesized in almost every cell of the body.
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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
