This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
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The types of cancer that alpha interferons are used to treat include hairy cell leukemia, melanoma, follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma.
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Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
This lithograph of the New York draft riots, 1863, shows that although the rioters mainly targeted b