In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
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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.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Generalized transduction by random incorporation of bacterial DNA into phage heads