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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis has a slowly progressive process that, unlike invasive aspergillosis, does not spread to other organ systems or the blood vessels. It most often affects middle-aged and elderly individuals, spreading to surrounding tissue in the lungs. The disease often does not respond to conventionally successful treatments, and requires individualized therapies in order to keep it from becoming life-threatening.
Disorders that may affect pharmacodynamics include genetic mutations, malnutrition, thyrotoxicosis, myasthenia gravis, Parkinson's disease, and certain forms of insulin-resistant diabetes mellitus.