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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Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
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The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.
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Atropine, along with scopolamine and hyoscyamine, is found in the Datura stramonium plant, which gives hallucinogenic effects and is also known as locoweed.
This bleeding heart plant (the genus Dicentra) is an example of an angiosperm.
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Internal Heart Anatomy
Sample Workout in the Target Heart Rate Range
The physician uses auscultation to listen to a patient’s heart.
How to convert units of any rate to another (Part 3)