If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
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In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
Purpura, hemorrhaging into the skin due to fragile blood vessels.
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