The average cost to fill a prescription for the consumer was $10 for generic statins versus $48 for brand names. âGiven this substantial cost difference, it is perhaps not surprising that adherence and cardiovascular outcomes were worse among patients receiving brand-name statins,â study authors wrote. Overall, people who took generic drugs had 8% fewer incidents than people who used brand-name drugs.
Chemotherapy was discovered during World War II when a ship carrying sulfur mustards (a nerve agent to be used in chemical warfare) was bombed and the troops on board were exposed to the chemical. Those men affected tested for depleted bone marrow and lymph systems â cells that naturally divide faster than other cells.
This led to the discovery of the lymphatic system and a new insight into a possible cause of cancer. In the late 19th century Rudolph Virchow's was the doctor to recognize leukemia cells. Virchow's cell theory was expanded on by German surgeon, Karl Thiersch, who discovered that cancer spread through malignant cells.