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Looking at the sun may not only cause headache and distort your vision temporarily, but it can also cause permanent eye damage. Any exposure to sunlight adds to the cumulative effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation on your eyes. UV exposure has been linked to eye disorders such as macular degeneration, solar retinitis, and corneal dystrophies.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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The eye muscles are the most active muscles in the whole body. The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was originally known as the Communicable Disease Center, which was formed to fight malaria. It was originally headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, since the Southern states faced the worst threat from malaria.
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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.
Elastic fibres are made of elastin, one type of structural protein found in the ECM of animal cells
Three Mechanisms of Gene Transfer Found in Bacteria
Examples of deep-sea corals found in the Sable Gully, 200 km off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, Central Park, New York City.
Sample prescriptions of drugs for oral fungal infections.
Random distribution of dandelions