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  2. Cutco - Wikipedia

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    Cutco is a brand of cutlery and kitchen accessories directly marketed to customers through in-home demonstrations by independent sales representatives who are mostly college students. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] More than 100 kitchen cutlery products are sold under the Cutco name, as well as a variety of kitchen utensils , cookware , sporting, and outdoor knives.

  3. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - Wikipedia

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    Etymology. Pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis is the longest word in the English language. The word can be analysed as follows: Pneumono: from ancient Greek (πνεύμων, pneúmōn) which means lungs. ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond. micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the ...

  4. Vector Marketing - Wikipedia

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    www.vectormarketing.com. Vector Marketing is a direct selling marketing subsidiary company and the marketing arm of Cutco Corporation, an Olean, New York –based cutlery manufacturer. The company has been the subject of criticism and lawsuits for its business practices and has been accused of being a multi-level marketing company.

  5. Tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the " white death ", or historically as consumption, [8] is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. [1] Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [1] Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known ...

  6. Health care prices in the United States - Wikipedia

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    An estimated 155 million persons under the age 65 were covered under health insurance plans provided by their employers in 2016. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the health insurance premium for single coverage would be $6,400 and family coverage would be $15,500 in 2016.

  7. Disease burden - Wikipedia

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    Disease burden is the impact of a health problem as measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity, or other indicators. It is often quantified in terms of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) or disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). Both of these metrics quantify the number of years lost due to disability (YLDs), sometimes also known as ...

  8. Therapeutic Targets Database - Wikipedia

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    This database contains 3,730 therapeutic targets (532 successful, 1,442 clinical trial, 239 preclincial/patented and 1,517 research targets) and 39,862 drugs (2,895 approved, 11,796 clinical trial, 5,041 preclincial/patented and 20,130 experimental drugs). The targets and drugs in TTD cover 583 protein biochemical classes and 958 drug ...

  9. Organ trade - Wikipedia

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    Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation. [1] [2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical systems.