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Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
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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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People who have myopia, or nearsightedness, are not able to see objects at a distance but only up close. It occurs when the cornea is either curved too steeply, the eye is too long, or both. This condition is progressive and worsens with time. More than 100 million people in the United States are nearsighted, but only 20% of those are born with the condition. Diet, eye exercise, drug therapy, and corrective lenses can all help manage nearsightedness.
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Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
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When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
A simplified diagram of the Human Ear
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Structure of human immunodeficiency virus
Some threatened and endangered species
Lobes of the brain, with primary receiving and integrating centers of the human cerebral cortex.
Allelic phase analysis in human families A and B