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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
After 5 years of being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, one every three patients will no longer be able to work.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).