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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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There used to be a metric calendar, as well as metric clocks. The metric calendar, or "French Republican Calendar" divided the year into 12 months, but each month was divided into three 10-day weeks. Each day had 10 decimal hours. Each hour had 100 decimal minutes. Due to lack of popularity, the metric clocks and calendars were ended in 1795, three years after they had been first marketed.
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The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
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Drugs are in development that may cure asthma and hay fever once and for all. They target leukotrienes, which are known to cause tightening of the air passages in the lungs and increase mucus productions in nasal passages.
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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
Mechanisms of Active and Passive Immunity
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.
Turn the baby over and end with passive touch on the head. Gently hold the baby’s head and look ...
Rock the leg to create movement at the hip joint. Apply passive movements to mobilize knee and hip ...
Passive Reabsorption in the late PCT