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There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis has a slowly progressive process that, unlike invasive aspergillosis, does not spread to other organ systems or the blood vessels. It most often affects middle-aged and elderly individuals, spreading to surrounding tissue in the lungs. The disease often does not respond to conventionally successful treatments, and requires individualized therapies in order to keep it from becoming life-threatening.