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Author Question: Find the z-score for the value 84, when the mean is 74 and the standard deviation is 1. (Read 24 times) |
Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates's recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
Cocaine was isolated in 1860 and first used as a local anesthetic in 1884. Its first clinical use was by Sigmund Freud to wean a patient from morphine addiction. The fictional character Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be addicted to cocaine by injection.