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Snakes yawn, both to realign their jaws after a meal and for respiratory reasons, as their trachea can be seen to expand when they do this. Dogs, and occasionally cats, often yawn after seeing people yawn [11] [65] and when they feel uncertain. [66] Dogs demonstrate contagious yawning when exposed to human yawning.
Reasons we we yawn. It was once believed that the main function of yawning was to increase otherwise low oxygen levels, but a 1987 study disproved that theory. And despite extensive additional ...
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The Prentice Women's Hospital and Maternity Center was a hospital on the Downtown Chicago campus of Northwestern University's Northwestern Memorial Hospital in the Streeterville district of Chicago's Near North Side. The hospital was replaced with the current new building of Prentice Women's Hospital adjacent to Lurie Children's Hospital.
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta) Illinois. John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County (Chicago) Provident Hospital (Chicago) Indiana. Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital (Indianapolis) [1] Minnesota. Hennepin County Medical Center; Mississippi. Greenwood Leflore Hospital - Jointly owned by the City of Greenwood and Leflore County [2] New York ...
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital's roots date back to 1865 when the then Deaconess Hospital of Chicago was established by local reverend William A. Passavant Sr. and Lucy Rider Meyer of the Chicago Training School (later Garrett Theological Seminary), with a capacity of 15 beds.
In 1996, during a visit to Chicago, Diana, Princess of Wales visited the Lurie Cancer Center to help raise money for cancer research and to benefit a cancer support group. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 1997, the center received the " comprehensive cancer center " designation from the National Cancer Institute , prompting a name change to the "Robert H. Lurie ...