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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
If you use artificial sweeteners, such as cyclamates, your eyes may be more sensitive to light. Other factors that will make your eyes more sensitive to light include use of antibiotics, oral contraceptives, hypertension medications, diuretics, and antidiabetic medications.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.