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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
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.
In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
In the ancient and medieval periods, dysentery killed about ? of all babies before they reach 12 months of age. The disease was transferred through contaminated drinking water, because there was no way to adequately dispose of sewage, which contaminated the water.