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Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
Congestive heart failure is a serious disorder that carries a reduced life expectancy. Heart failure is usually a chronic illness, and it may worsen with infection or other physical stressors.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.