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Patients should never assume they are being given the appropriate drugs. They should make sure they know which drugs are being prescribed, and always double-check that the drugs received match the prescription.
The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.