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Tobacco depletes the body of vitamins A, C, and E, which can result in any of the following: dry hair, dry skin, dry eyes, poor growth, night blindness, abscesses, insomnia, fatigue, reproductive system problems, sinusitis, pneumonia, frequent respiratory problems, skin disorders, weight loss, rickets, osteomalacia, nervousness, muscle spasms, leg cramps, extremity numbness, bone malformations, decayed teeth, difficulty in walking, irritability, restlessness, profuse sweating, increased uric acid (gout), joint damage, damaged red blood cells, destruction of nerves, infertility, miscarriage, and many types of cancer.
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Most women experience menopause in their 50s. However, in 1994, an Italian woman gave birth to a baby boy when she was 61 years old.
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Prostaglandins were first isolated from human semen in Sweden in the 1930s. They were so named because the researcher thought that they came from the prostate gland. In fact, prostaglandins exist and are synthesized in almost every cell of the body.
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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
The original Magdeburg hemispheres (lower left) used to demonstrate Otto von Guericke's vacuum
Testing Visual Fields by Confrontation: The nurse and patient should be approximately at an eye to e
Patient with exophthalmos.
Patient Information Supplied When Scheduling Hospital Admissions
Mechanisms of Action of Antiulcer Drugs
A dead-blow hammer that was left outside in freezing weather. The plastic covering was damaged, ...