It is widely believed that giving a daily oral dose of aspirin to heart attack patients improves their chances of survival because the aspirin blocks the formation of new blood clots.
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An identified risk factor for osteoporosis is the intake of excessive amounts of vitamin A. Dietary intake of approximately double the recommended daily amount of vitamin A, by women, has been shown to reduce bone mineral density and increase the chances for hip fractures compared with women who consumed the recommended daily amount (or less) of vitamin A.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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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.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
