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The classic symptoms of untreated coeliac disease include diarrhea, steatorrhoea, iron-deficiency anemia, and weight loss or failure to gain weight. Other common symptoms may be subtle or primarily occur in organs other than the bowel itself. [33] It is also possible to have coeliac disease without any of the classic symptoms at all. [18]
Scopolamine, also known as hyoscine, [9] or Devil's Breath, [10] is a natural or synthetically produced tropane alkaloid and anticholinergic drug that is used as a medication to treat motion sickness [11] and postoperative nausea and vomiting.
Although usually carried without symptoms, MRSA often presents as small red pustular skin infections. In humans, Staphylococcus aureus is part of the normal microbiota present in the upper respiratory tract, [2] and on skin and in the gut mucosa. [3]
In 1968 in Japan, 400,000 birds died after eating poultry feed that was contaminated with PCBs. [69] Animals that ingest smaller amounts of PCBs in food over several weeks or months develop various health effects, including anemia ; acne-like skin conditions ( chloracne ); liver, stomach , and thyroid gland injuries (including hepatocarcinoma ...
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease. [1] [2] The safety and effectiveness of vaccines has been widely studied and verified.
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...