On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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More than 20 million Americans cite use of marijuana within the past 30 days, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). More than 8 million admit to using it almost every day.
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Stroke kills people from all ethnic backgrounds, but the people at highest risk for fatal strokes are: black men, black women, Asian men, white men, and white women.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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