When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
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Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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Fungal nail infections account for up to 30% of all skin infections. They affect 5% of the general population—mostly people over the age of 70.
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Sample Medicare identification card.
Sample prescriptions of drugs for oral fungal infections.
Inflamed skin (dermatitis) can result from pellagra