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Children of people with alcoholism are more inclined to drink alcohol or use hard drugs. In fact, they are 400 times more likely to use hard drugs than those who do not have a family history of alcohol addiction.
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.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.