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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
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According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, more than 50 million Americans have some kind of food allergy. Food allergies affect between 4 and 6% of children, and 4% of adults, according to the CDC. The most common food allergies include shellfish, peanuts, walnuts, fish, eggs, milk, and soy.
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GI conditions that will keep you out of the U.S. armed services include ulcers, varices, fistulas, esophagitis, gastritis, congenital abnormalities, inflammatory bowel disease, enteritis, colitis, proctitis, duodenal diverticula, malabsorption syndromes, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cysts, abscesses, pancreatitis, polyps, certain hemorrhoids, splenomegaly, hernias, recent abdominal surgery, GI bypass or stomach stapling, and artificial GI openings.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
True-color view of Mars seen through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1999
View from the Phoenix lander, 2008
Bronchoscopy. Figure illustrates physician using a bronchoscope to inspect the patient’s bronchial t
Brain, spinal cord, and spinal nerves with an expanded view of a spinal nerve.
Close-up view of a diaphragm amplifier on the left and a bell amplifier on the right
The kidney with an expanded view of the nephron.