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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Stroke kills people from all ethnic backgrounds, but the people at highest risk for fatal strokes are: black men, black women, Asian men, white men, and white women.