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Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
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.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.