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The average older adult in the United States takes five prescription drugs per day. Half of these drugs contain a sedative. Alcohol should therefore be avoided by most senior citizens because of the dangerous interactions between alcohol and sedatives.
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Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
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Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system destroys its own healthy tissues. When this occurs, white blood cells cannot distinguish between pathogens and normal cells.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.