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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.
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In the United States, congenital cytomegalovirus causes one child to become disabled almost every hour. CMV is the leading preventable viral cause of development disability in newborns. These disabilities include hearing or vision loss, and cerebral palsy.
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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
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It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.