On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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More than 20 million Americans cite use of marijuana within the past 30 days, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). More than 8 million admit to using it almost every day.
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The effects of organophosphate poisoning are referred to by using the abbreviations “SLUD” or “SLUDGE,” It stands for: salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, GI upset, and emesis.
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Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
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Hyperthyroidism leads to an increased rate of metabolism and affects about 1% of women but only 0.1% of men. For most people, this increased metabolic rate causes the thyroid gland to become enlarged (known as a goiter).
Over nearly 30 years, humans removed many polar bears for a variety of reasons, from a population in
The American Lion was one of the abundant Pleistocene megafauna, a wide variety of very large mammal
Isaac Julien, Ten Thousand Waves.
Four types of covalent modifications that controls that activities of enzymes
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Fathers engage in physical play with infants more often than mothers do