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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
In the United States, congenital cytomegalovirus causes one child to become disabled almost every hour. CMV is the leading preventable viral cause of development disability in newborns. These disabilities include hearing or vision loss, and cerebral palsy.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Interferon was scarce and expensive until 1980, when the interferon gene was inserted into bacteria using recombinant DNA technology, allowing for mass cultivation and purification from bacterial cultures.