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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Studies show that systolic blood pressure can be significantly lowered by taking statins. In fact, the higher the patient's baseline blood pressure, the greater the effect of statins on his or her blood pressure.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.