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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.
Many supplement containers do not even contain what their labels say. There are many documented reports of products containing much less, or more, that what is listed on their labels. They may also contain undisclosed prescription drugs and even contaminants.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.