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The National Institutes of Health have supported research into acupuncture. This has shown that acupuncture significantly reduced pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee, when used as a complement to conventional therapies.
The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
Although the Roman numeral for the number 4 has always been taught to have been "IV," according to historians, the ancient Romans probably used "IIII" most of the time. This is partially backed up by the fact that early grandfather clocks displayed IIII for the number 4 instead of IV. Early clockmakers apparently thought that the IIII balanced out the VIII (used for the number 8) on the clock face and that it just looked better.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.