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Blood in the urine can be a sign of a kidney stone, glomerulonephritis, or other kidney problems.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Atropine was named after the Greek goddess Atropos, the oldest and ugliest of the three sisters known as the Fates, who controlled the destiny of men.