Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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Approximately one in three babies in the United States is now delivered by cesarean section. The number of cesarean sections in the United States has risen 46% since 1996.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA was discovered in 1961 in the United Kingdom. It if often referred to as a superbug. MRSA infections cause more deaths in the United States every year than AIDS.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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The risk of dying before the age of 65 gets lower as family income gets higher.
The Head Start program was designed to increase the school readiness of low-income children.
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How the Distribution of Education Affects the Distribution of Income