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Most strokes are caused when blood clots move to a blood vessel in the brain and block blood flow to that area. Thrombolytic therapy can be used to dissolve the clot quickly. If given within 3 hours of the first stroke symptoms, this therapy can help limit stroke damage and disability.
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Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
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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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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.