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Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.