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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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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.
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A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
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Prostaglandins were first isolated from human semen in Sweden in the 1930s. They were so named because the researcher thought that they came from the prostate gland. In fact, prostaglandins exist and are synthesized in almost every cell of the body.
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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
A purse made from a cane toad.
Five Areas for listening to the heart
The “Flat Head” (Chinook) Indians acquired their name through shaping in infancy, as shown in a diag
Passive touch by holding the head lightly.
Turn the baby over and end with passive touch on the head. Gently hold the baby’s head and look ...
canine heads