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In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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Elderly adults are living longer, and causes of death are shifting. At the same time, autopsy rates are at or near their lowest in history.
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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
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Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.