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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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The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
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All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.
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The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.