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Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.
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.