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Patients should never assume they are being given the appropriate drugs. They should make sure they know which drugs are being prescribed, and always double-check that the drugs received match the prescription.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Your heart beats over 36 million times a 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.