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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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Cocaine was isolated in 1860 and first used as a local anesthetic in 1884. Its first clinical use was by Sigmund Freud to wean a patient from morphine addiction. The fictional character Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be addicted to cocaine by injection.
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Atropine, along with scopolamine and hyoscyamine, is found in the Datura stramonium plant, which gives hallucinogenic effects and is also known as locoweed.
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More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.