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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
A recent study has found that following a diet rich in berries may slow down the aging process of the brain. This diet apparently helps to keep dopamine levels much higher than are seen in normal individuals who do not eat berries as a regular part of their diet as they enter their later years.
Medications that are definitely not safe to take when breastfeeding include radioactive drugs, antimetabolites, some cancer (chemotherapy) agents, bromocriptine, ergotamine, methotrexate, and cyclosporine.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.