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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Long-term mental and physical effects from substance abuse include: paranoia, psychosis, immune deficiencies, and organ damage.
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Parkinson's disease is both chronic and progressive. This means that it persists over a long period of time and that its symptoms grow worse over time.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
Brain scans showing the white-matter pathways involved in everyday learning:
Sirius and Its White Dwarf Companion
For a differential white blood cell count, (A) the slide is examined under oil immersion. (B) Cells ...