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In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared the first American Heart Month. February now marks the month where the nation focuses on heart health. It’s an important cause to follow since heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women. Denoyer-Geppert Science Company will like to support American Heart Month this February by spreading the word on the importance of heart health and education.  Quick Facts Every year, 1 in 4 deaths are caused by heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for people of most radical and ethnic groups in the United States....

You might have thought there are 78 organs in the human body, but there might be 79 now. This hidden structure is behind the skin of your stomach and your abdominal muscles. Known as the mesentery, it’s now being classified as a human organ.  Scientists at the University of Limerick in Ireland published a review in Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, which defended this structure as an organ, according to Quartz.  The mesentery serves as a type of crimped tissue that anchors the small intestines to the back of the abdominal wall.  “[The mesentery] keeps the intestine in a particular shape,”...