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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.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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.
Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.