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Studies show that systolic blood pressure can be significantly lowered by taking statins. In fact, the higher the patient's baseline blood pressure, the greater the effect of statins on his or her blood pressure.
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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
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Asthma-like symptoms were first recorded about 3,500 years ago in Egypt. The first manuscript specifically written about asthma was in the year 1190, describing a condition characterized by sudden breathlessness. The treatments listed in this manuscript include chicken soup, herbs, and sexual abstinence.
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It is believed that humans initially contracted crabs from gorillas about 3 million years ago from either sleeping in gorilla nests or eating the apes.
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Walt Disney helped combat malaria by making an animated film in 1943 called The Winged Scourge. This short film starred the seven dwarfs and taught children that mosquitos transmit malaria, which is a very bad disease. It advocated the killing of mosquitos to stop the disease.
The standard protocol of a metagenomics experiment.
This Black-browed Albatross has been hooked on a long-line.
Injecting an IV push (bolus) medication; B, into a primary infusion line
Solomon's Seal
Finding the equation of a line
Frederick Griffith’s experiment identifying a ″transformation factor″ responsible for heredity