The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
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The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
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For about 100 years, scientists thought that peptic ulcers were caused by stress, spicy food, and alcohol. Later, researchers added stomach acid to the list of causes and began treating ulcers with antacids. Now it is known that peptic ulcers are predominantly caused by Helicobacter pylori, a spiral-shaped bacterium that normally exist in the stomach.
