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Thyroid conditions may make getting pregnant impossible.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
It is believed that the Incas used anesthesia. Evidence supports the theory that shamans chewed cocoa leaves and drilled holes into the heads of patients (letting evil spirits escape), spitting into the wounds they made. The mixture of cocaine, saliva, and resin numbed the site enough to allow hours of drilling.
According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, lung disease is the third leading killer in the United States, responsible for one in seven deaths. It is the leading cause of death among infants under the age of one year.