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.
Forensic science experts have discovered that the remains of Yelena Glinskaya and Anastasia Romanovna, the mother and the wife of the first Russian tsar, contain suspiciously high concentrations of mercury. According to legend, Yelena was poisoned by political enemies in 1538 when Ivan was still a boy. Anastasia, the great aunt of the first Romanov tsar, was murdered in 1560 at 26. Researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences made the discoveries after studying remains from the Necropolis of the Archangel Cathedral inside the Kremlin.