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Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis has a slowly progressive process that, unlike invasive aspergillosis, does not spread to other organ systems or the blood vessels. It most often affects middle-aged and elderly individuals, spreading to surrounding tissue in the lungs. The disease often does not respond to conventionally successful treatments, and requires individualized therapies in order to keep it from becoming life-threatening.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
The U.S. Pharmacopeia Medication Errors Reporting Program states that approximately 50% of all medication errors involve insulin.