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Scopolamine, also known as hyoscine, [9] or Devil's Breath, [10] is a natural or synthetically produced tropane alkaloid and anticholinergic drug that is used as a medication to treat motion sickness [11] and postoperative nausea and vomiting. [12][1] It is also sometimes used before surgery to decrease saliva. [1]
The drug is considered to have a high potential for abuse and addiction, but has accepted medical use for the treatment of severe insomnia. [84] In Australia, temazepam is a Schedule 4 - Prescription Only medicine. [85] It is primarily used for the treatment of insomnia, and is also seen as pre-anaesthetic medication. [10]
The Keys to the White House. The Keys to the White House is a prediction system for determining the outcome of presidential elections in the United States. It was developed by American historian Allan Lichtman and Russian geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981, adapting prediction methods that Keilis-Borok designed for earthquake prediction.
Rev. Hillary Taylor protests the planned execution of Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. Owens is set to be the first person to be executed in South Carolina in ...
Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs struck a deal to bring running back Kareem Hunt back to the franchise on Tuesday, nearly six years after they first released him following a video showing a ...
Corrective rape, also called curative rape[1] or homophobic rape, [2][3][4] is a hate crime in which somebody is raped because of their perceived sexual orientation. The common intended consequence of the rape, as claimed by the perpetrator, is to turn the person heterosexual. [5][6][7]
In aphasia (sometimes called dysphasia), [a] a person may be unable to comprehend or unable to formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. [2] The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine, but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in the Global North. [3]
Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.