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Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis has a slowly progressive process that, unlike invasive aspergillosis, does not spread to other organ systems or the blood vessels. It most often affects middle-aged and elderly individuals, spreading to surrounding tissue in the lungs. The disease often does not respond to conventionally successful treatments, and requires individualized therapies in order to keep it from becoming life-threatening.
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Persons who overdose with cardiac glycosides have a better chance of overall survival if they can survive the first 24 hours after the overdose.
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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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The toxic levels for lithium carbonate are close to the therapeutic levels. Signs of toxicity include fine hand tremor, polyuria, mild thirst, nausea, general discomfort, diarrhea, vomiting, drowsiness, muscular weakness, lack of coordination, ataxia, giddiness, tinnitus, and blurred vision.
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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.
The human birth process as an example of positive feedback.
Varicella or chickenpox, a viral skin infection. In this photograph, the rash is beginning to form s
Sugar Cube-Sized Robotic Ants Mimic Real Foraging Behavior
Scent-Tracking Behavior
Reptilian Brain or Instinctive Brain Promote Understanding of Human Behavior
Reconstruction Drawing of the Megaron (Great Room) of the Pylos Palace