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Date	Process	Result
August 11, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
September 2, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
July 9, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
December 14, 2008	Featured article review	Demoted
November 9, 2010	Peer review	Reviewed
January 27, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
Current status: Former featured article, current good article

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infobox image caption grammar

The infobox pic has featured goofy grammar since Produde29499's june 27 edit (almost a month as of writing!). I'd fix this but I'm unregistered and the article is semi-protected. "This is an image of an asthmatics airways, it become swollen and full of mucous." 73.132.7.56 (talk) 18:39, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ephedrine

Shouldn't ephedrine be mentioned? Paul Magnussen (talk) 18:25, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]