Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.
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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
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Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
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Mirror Neurons in Broca’s Area
Medical Language (3rd Edition)
Mirror recognition and self-naming develop at almost exactly the same time