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The average older adult in the United States takes five prescription drugs per day. Half of these drugs contain a sedative. Alcohol should therefore be avoided by most senior citizens because of the dangerous interactions between alcohol and sedatives.
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Prostaglandins were first isolated from human semen in Sweden in the 1930s. They were so named because the researcher thought that they came from the prostate gland. In fact, prostaglandins exist and are synthesized in almost every cell of the body.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
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There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.