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Certain topical medications such as clotrimazole and betamethasone are not approved for use in children younger than 12 years of age. They must be used very cautiously, as directed by a doctor, to treat any child. Children have a much greater response to topical steroid medications.
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.
As many as 20% of Americans have been infected by the fungus known as Histoplasmosis. While most people are asymptomatic or only have slight symptoms, infection can progress to a rapid and potentially fatal superinfection.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
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.