Congestive heart failure is a serious disorder that carries a reduced life expectancy. Heart failure is usually a chronic illness, and it may worsen with infection or other physical stressors.
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Approximately one in four people diagnosed with diabetes will develop foot problems. Of these, about one-third will require lower extremity amputation.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.
Areas of Referred Pain, Posterior View
A chest X-ray showing pneumonia characterized by the patch of gray-white areas.
Drug tolerance: A shift in the dose-response curve to the right as a result of exposure to the drug.