The effects of organophosphate poisoning are referred to by using the abbreviations “SLUD” or “SLUDGE,” It stands for: salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, GI upset, and emesis.
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More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.
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In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all women age 65 years of age or older should be screened with bone densitometry.
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Multiple sclerosis is a condition wherein the body's nervous system is weakened by an autoimmune reaction that attacks the myelin sheaths of neurons.
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