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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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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
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About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.