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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.
Despite claims by manufacturers, the supplement known as Ginkgo biloba was shown in a study of more than 3,000 participants to be ineffective in reducing development of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in older people.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
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.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.