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About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.
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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.