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In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
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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.
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Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released reports detailing the deaths of infants (younger than 1 year of age) who died after being given cold and cough medications. This underscores the importance of educating parents that children younger than 2 years of age should never be given over-the-counter cold and cough medications without consulting their physicians.
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Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
The carbon cycle. Numbers are storage as 1015 g or fluxes as 1015 g per year (data from Schlesinger
American Mastiff
Spain’s North American Frontier, c. 1750
Native American casinos remain a topic of both controversy and envy. Shown here is Corey Two Crow as ...
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Portrait of Typical 12-year-old Boy and Girl, 1981 and 2007-2009