Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
Salt and water balance in water-breathers.
Cade and colleagues discovered a way to improve athletic performance and prevent salt and water imba
The salt marsh at La Perouse Bay, east of Churchill, Manitoba.