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People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.
Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
The eye muscles are the most active muscles in the whole body. The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
Vertebral compression Fractures of the spine (vertebra) can cause severe ”band-like” pain that radia
Types of paralysis: (A) Quadriplegia is complete or partial paralysis of the upper extremities and c



