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Gruesome pictures as preventive medicine.(Medical Edge)Dvorak, Paul The National Center for Health Statistics (www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm) recently released stats on causes of death in Americans. You can review them on their Web site. Most categories are recognizable except for ninth and tenth places. Ninth describes several kidney diseases, and septicemia, or blood poisoning, is a systemic disease in which the blood can't rid itself of pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins.
The table there tells several tales but the biggest one is that preventable diseases are killing us. And because most causes are influenced by personal choices ...
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