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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was originally known as the Communicable Disease Center, which was formed to fight malaria. It was originally headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, since the Southern states faced the worst threat from malaria.
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The newest statin drug, rosuvastatin, has been called a superstatin because it appears to reduce LDL cholesterol to a greater degree than the other approved statin drugs.
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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.