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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.