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Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
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Children with strabismus (crossed eyes) can be treated. They are not able to outgrow this condition on their own, but with help, it can be more easily corrected at a younger age. It is important for infants to have eye examinations as early as possible in their development and then another at age 2 years.
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Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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Many people have small pouches in their colons that bulge outward through weak spots. Each pouch is called a diverticulum. About 10% of Americans older than age 40 years have diverticulosis, which, when the pouches become infected or inflamed, is called diverticulitis. The main cause of diverticular disease is a low-fiber diet.
The structure of a typical flower.
A mother dies, a father loses his leg—such calamities shattered poor urban families. Orphaned street
Jane Addams (1860–1935), a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace, worked on behalf of poor ...
A cutaway view of a typical variable fuel sensor.
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Typical bacterial size and structure