Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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Studies show that systolic blood pressure can be significantly lowered by taking statins. In fact, the higher the patient's baseline blood pressure, the greater the effect of statins on his or her blood pressure.
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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.
A Crab-eating Macaque, an old world species of monkey native to Southeast Asia
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a cytogenetic technique that is used to detect the ...