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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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
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The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
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Thyroid conditions may make getting pregnant impossible.
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Thyroid conditions cause a higher risk of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
