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Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
Children of people with alcoholism are more inclined to drink alcohol or use hard drugs. In fact, they are 400 times more likely to use hard drugs than those who do not have a family history of alcohol addiction.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.