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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
Approximately 15–25% of recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. However, many miscarriages often occur before a woman even knows she is pregnant.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.