The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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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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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
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The types of cancer that alpha interferons are used to treat include hairy cell leukemia, melanoma, follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma.
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In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
