ACTH levels are normally highest in the early morning (between 6 and 8 A.M.) and lowest in the evening (between 6 and 11 P.M.). Therefore, a doctor who suspects abnormal levels looks for low ACTH in the morning and high ACTH in the evening.
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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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In ancient Rome, many of the richer people in the population had lead-induced gout. The reason for this is unclear. Lead poisoning has also been linked to madness.
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It is believed that humans initially contracted crabs from gorillas about 3 million years ago from either sleeping in gorilla nests or eating the apes.
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Chinese workers on a railway in the far West. “Without them,” Leland Stanford, president of the Cent
