The word drug comes from the Dutch word droog (meaning "dry"). For centuries, most drugs came from dried plants, hence the name.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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The oldest recorded age was 122. Madame Jeanne Calment was born in France in 1875 and died in 1997. She was a vegetarian and loved olive oil, port wine, and chocolate.
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Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in the world. Most children who develop asthma have symptoms before they are 5 years old.
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
Coleman's parabiosis experiments revealed a satiety factor in wild-type mice that was absent or
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How the multiple-factor hypothesis accounts for the 1:4:6:4:1 phenotypic ratio
Frederick Griffith’s experiment identifying a ″transformation factor″ responsible for heredity