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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Today, nearly 8 out of 10 pregnant women living with HIV (about 1.1 million), receive antiretrovirals.
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.
The heart is located in the center of the chest, with part of it tipped slightly so that it taps against the left side of the chest.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.