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Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness. As of yet, there is no cure. Everyone is at risk, and there may be no warning signs. It is six to eight times more common in African Americans than in whites. The best and most effective way to detect glaucoma is to receive a dilated eye examination.
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Elderly adults are at greatest risk of stroke and myocardial infarction and have the most to gain from prophylaxis. Patients ages 60 to 80 years with blood pressures above 160/90 mm Hg should benefit from antihypertensive treatment.
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Malaria was not eliminated in the United States until 1951. The term eliminated means that no new cases arise in a country for 3 years.
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Only one in 10 cancer deaths is caused by the primary tumor. The vast majority of cancer mortality is caused by cells breaking away from the main tumor and metastasizing to other parts of the body, such as the brain, bones, or liver.
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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
Measles. A photograph of a child stricken with measles, showing the tell-tale sign of the skin rash.
A deaf baby attempting to sign.
This portrait of Thomas Jefferson is considered an accurate likeness, painted when he was thirty-sev
U.S. Life Expectancy by Year of Birth