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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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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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To prove that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria and not by stress, a researcher consumed an entire laboratory beaker full of bacterial culture. After this, he did indeed develop stomach ulcers, and won the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
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Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.