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Author Question: The Philadelphia Society to Alleviate the Miseries of Public Prisons was associated with which group? (Read 30 times) |
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).
The word drug comes from the Dutch word droog (meaning "dry"). For centuries, most drugs came from dried plants, hence the name.
Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.