If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system destroys its own healthy tissues. When this occurs, white blood cells cannot distinguish between pathogens and normal cells.
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Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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Inotropic therapy does not have a role in the treatment of most heart failure patients. These drugs can make patients feel and function better but usually do not lengthen the predicted length of their lives.
Hydrocephalus. The figure on the left is a child with the enlarged ventricles of hydrocephalus. The
