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A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
There are immediate benefits of chiropractic adjustments that are visible via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It shows that spinal manipulation therapy is effective in decreasing pain and increasing the gaps between the vertebrae, reducing pressure that leads to pain.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.