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Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
The types of cancer that alpha interferons are used to treat include hairy cell leukemia, melanoma, follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.