On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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The largest baby ever born weighed more than 23 pounds but died just 11 hours after his birth in 1879. The largest surviving baby was born in October 2009 in Sumatra, Indonesia, and weighed an astounding 19.2 pounds at birth.
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Today, nearly 8 out of 10 pregnant women living with HIV (about 1.1 million), receive antiretrovirals.
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About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.
HEART
Surface of the heart.
Heart Model 2
Increasing access to care for teen mothers is important because they have a higher rate of pregnancy ...
Desmosomes and gap junctions, as shown in heart muscle: Desmosome
If a graph has the following x-intercepts, which value of x is the instantaneous rate of change ...