If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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Immunoglobulin injections may give short-term protection against, or reduce severity of certain diseases. They help people who have an inherited problem making their own antibodies, or those who are having certain types of cancer treatments.
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All adverse reactions are commonly charted in red ink in the patient's record and usually are noted on the front of the chart. Failure to follow correct documentation procedures may result in malpractice lawsuits.
The Grants' investigation of natural selection in finches.
A 19-foot-long blue whale skull in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Natural capital degradation
Midway Island, an inhospitable atoll acquired in 1867, was valuable as a military base located midwa
The 122-base lac regulatory region
Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes, 4th Edition