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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released reports detailing the deaths of infants (younger than 1 year of age) who died after being given cold and cough medications. This underscores the importance of educating parents that children younger than 2 years of age should never be given over-the-counter cold and cough medications without consulting their physicians.
The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.