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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
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Malaria mortality rates are falling. Increased malaria prevention and control measures have greatly improved these rates. Since 2000, malaria mortality rates have fallen globally by 60% among all age groups, and by 65% among children under age 5.
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Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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The human body's pharmacokinetics are quite varied. Our hair holds onto drugs longer than our urine, blood, or saliva. For example, alcohol can be detected in the hair for up to 90 days after it was consumed. The same is true for marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, methamphetamine, and nicotine.
Three ways that factors affect mortality in response to changes in population density.
W. A. Rogers’s engraving, “Out of the Game,” showed one injured boy tending to another. It appeared
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Hormonal and nervous factors influencing blood pressure
Factors That Affect BP
Pioneer factors