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Hip fractures are the most serious consequences of osteoporosis. The incidence of hip fractures increases with each decade among patients in their 60s to patients in their 90s for both women and men of all populations. Men and women older than 80 years of age show the highest incidence of hip fractures.
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When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
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Most fungi that pathogenically affect humans live in soil. If a person is not healthy, has an open wound, or is immunocompromised, a fungal infection can be very aggressive.
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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.
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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
Results of the study by Laruelle et al. (1996)
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Adults in the Berlin Study of Aging show earlier declines on tests of nonverbal, fluid tasks (upper ...
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Harvard Alumni Study show who are more physically active in middle adulthood
Transmission genetics began with the study of pea plants.