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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Risperdal, an adult antipsychotic drug, for the symptomatic treatment of irritability in children and adolescents with autism. The approval is the first for the use of a drug to treat behaviors associated with autism in children. These behaviors are included under the general heading of irritability and include aggression, deliberate self-injury, and temper tantrums.
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.