Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
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Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis has a slowly progressive process that, unlike invasive aspergillosis, does not spread to other organ systems or the blood vessels. It most often affects middle-aged and elderly individuals, spreading to surrounding tissue in the lungs. The disease often does not respond to conventionally successful treatments, and requires individualized therapies in order to keep it from becoming life-threatening.
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Calcitonin is a naturally occurring hormone. In women who are at least 5 years beyond menopause, it slows bone loss and increases spinal bone density.
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Piaget was one of the first to go beyond observable behavior in an attempt to determine how infants ...
Relationship of the electrocardiogram to electrical conduction in the heart.
Relationship between the pancreas and the digestive system.
How to determine an equation in factored form from a graphed parabola