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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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Children of people with alcoholism are more inclined to drink alcohol or use hard drugs. In fact, they are 400 times more likely to use hard drugs than those who do not have a family history of alcohol addiction.
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Patients who have been on total parenteral nutrition for more than a few days may need to have foods gradually reintroduced to give the digestive tract time to start working again.
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The term pharmacology is derived from the Greek words pharmakon("claim, medicine, poison, or remedy") and logos ("study").
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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%