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Adults are resistant to the bacterium that causes Botulism. These bacteria thrive in honey – therefore, honey should never be given to infants since their immune systems are not yet resistant.
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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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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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Malaria mortality rates are falling. Increased malaria prevention and control measures have greatly improved these rates. Since 2000, malaria mortality rates have fallen globally by 60% among all age groups, and by 65% among children under age 5.
A purse made from a cane toad.
On November 11, 1887, four anarchists were hanged in Chicago on charges that they had thrown a bomb
Listening to the fetal heartbeat with a Doppler device.
Mechanisms of active and passive immunity.
Turn the baby over and end with passive touch on the head. Gently hold the baby’s head and look ...
Embryonic development of shepherd’s purse (Capsella), a eudicot