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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
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.