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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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Malaria mortality rates are falling. Increased malaria prevention and control measures have greatly improved these rates. Since 2000, malaria mortality rates have fallen globally by 60% among all age groups, and by 65% among children under age 5.
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In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").