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About 80% of major fungal systemic infections are due to Candida albicans. Another form, Candida peritonitis, occurs most often in postoperative patients. A rare disease, Candida meningitis, may follow leukemia, kidney transplant, other immunosuppressed factors, or when suffering from Candida septicemia.
Addicts to opiates often avoid treatment because they are afraid of withdrawal. Though unpleasant, with proper management, withdrawal is rarely fatal and passes relatively quickly.
People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.
The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.