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Only 12 hours after an egg cell is fertilized by a sperm cell, the egg cell starts to divide. As it continues to divide, it moves along the fallopian tube toward the uterus at about 1 inch per day.
Blastomycosis is often misdiagnosed, resulting in tragic outcomes. It is caused by a fungus living in moist soil, in wooded areas of the United States and Canada. If inhaled, the fungus can cause mild breathing problems that may worsen and cause serious illness and even death.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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.