Weekly Health Quiz: Side Effects, Sleep and an Unusual Organ Transplant

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An international team of surgeons in Serbia transplanted this organ from one man to his identical twin:

Lung

Testicle

Hand

Eye

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Grapefruit can limit the ability of statin drugs to lower cholesterol. So can this fruit:

Apple

Banana

Pomegranate

Kiwi

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Pete Frates, of the Ice Bucket Challenge fame, died at age 34 of this neurologic illness:

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease)

Huntington’s disease

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Guillain-Barre syndrome

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Which statement about knees and running is supported by research?

Distance running rebuilds the health of certain essential components of aging knees

Older runners developed knee arthritis at lower rates than their sedentary peers

Young people’s knees grew less inflamed after a run than after a long stretch of sitting

All of the above

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True or false? More Americans now die at home than in hospitals.

True

False

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Sleeping more than this many hours a night was tied to an increased risk of stroke:

8 hours

9 hours

10 hours

11 hours

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True or false? Children born by C-section are at increased risk of obesity, according to a large new Swedish study:

True

False