Vaccines: Why Preservatives Were Added
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A recent special U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled that there was no link between autism and vaccines. Since the Supreme Court has just announced today that it will decide if vaccine manufactures can be …

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Who Knew? The Life Span of a Red Blood Cell

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A red blood cell (RBC) lives for about 120 days before the plasma membrane becomes fragile and non-functional. Since the average male has about 5.4 million red blood cells per cubic millimeter of blood, the body must produce about 2 million new red blood cells a second. Yes, 2 million a second! The question is how many cubic millimeters of blood is there in the body?

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