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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
Although the Roman numeral for the number 4 has always been taught to have been "IV," according to historians, the ancient Romans probably used "IIII" most of the time. This is partially backed up by the fact that early grandfather clocks displayed IIII for the number 4 instead of IV. Early clockmakers apparently thought that the IIII balanced out the VIII (used for the number 8) on the clock face and that it just looked better.
On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.