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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.
People who have myopia, or nearsightedness, are not able to see objects at a distance but only up close. It occurs when the cornea is either curved too steeply, the eye is too long, or both. This condition is progressive and worsens with time. More than 100 million people in the United States are nearsighted, but only 20% of those are born with the condition. Diet, eye exercise, drug therapy, and corrective lenses can all help manage nearsightedness.
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.