The Normals Episode 1

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Apr 7, 202623:42Science & Medicine

How do we know what's normal in a person? In the early 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) set out to do something unprecedented. It wanted to start studying normal humans on a grand scale. It had pretty much...

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