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Patients who have been on total parenteral nutrition for more than a few days may need to have foods gradually reintroduced to give the digestive tract time to start working again.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
Anesthesia awareness is a potentially disturbing adverse effect wherein patients who have been paralyzed with muscle relaxants may awaken. They may be aware of their surroundings but unable to communicate or move. Neurologic monitoring equipment that helps to more closely check the patient's anesthesia stages is now available to avoid the occurrence of anesthesia awareness.
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.