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GI conditions that will keep you out of the U.S. armed services include ulcers, varices, fistulas, esophagitis, gastritis, congenital abnormalities, inflammatory bowel disease, enteritis, colitis, proctitis, duodenal diverticula, malabsorption syndromes, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cysts, abscesses, pancreatitis, polyps, certain hemorrhoids, splenomegaly, hernias, recent abdominal surgery, GI bypass or stomach stapling, and artificial GI openings.
The FDA recognizes 118 routes of administration.
More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.