The heart is located in the center of the chest, with part of it tipped slightly so that it taps against the left side of the chest.
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Fungal nail infections account for up to 30% of all skin infections. They affect 5% of the general population—mostly people over the age of 70.
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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates's recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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The most destructive flu epidemic of all times in recorded history occurred in 1918, with approximately 20 million deaths worldwide.
A juvenile and a female torrent duck on the Urubamba River, Peru
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Connections of a nitric acid plant, intermediate pressure type
