The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.
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Nearly all drugs pass into human breast milk. How often a drug is taken influences the amount of drug that will pass into the milk. Medications taken 30 to 60 minutes before breastfeeding are likely to be at peak blood levels when the baby is nursing.
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The most common childhood diseases include croup, chickenpox, ear infections, flu, pneumonia, ringworm, respiratory syncytial virus, scabies, head lice, and asthma.
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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.
