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Persons who overdose with cardiac glycosides have a better chance of overall survival if they can survive the first 24 hours after the overdose.
If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.