A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
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Amphetamine poisoning can cause intravascular coagulation, circulatory collapse, rhabdomyolysis, ischemic colitis, acute psychosis, hyperthermia, respiratory distress syndrome, and pericarditis.
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There are approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.
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Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
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It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
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The human metallothionein IIA gene promoter
Visualization of gap gene expression in a Drosophila embryo
Mammalian male sex determination is initiated by the Y-linked SRY gene