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Despite claims by manufacturers, the supplement known as Ginkgo biloba was shown in a study of more than 3,000 participants to be ineffective in reducing development of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in older people.
Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
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.