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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.
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.
The National Institutes of Health have supported research into acupuncture. This has shown that acupuncture significantly reduced pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee, when used as a complement to conventional therapies.
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.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%