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Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released reports detailing the deaths of infants (younger than 1 year of age) who died after being given cold and cough medications. This underscores the importance of educating parents that children younger than 2 years of age should never be given over-the-counter cold and cough medications without consulting their physicians.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.