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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Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
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There are approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.
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About 600,000 particles of skin are shed every hour by each human. If you live to age 70 years, you have shed 105 pounds of dead skin.
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Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.
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The blood–brain barrier.
Blood Flow to the Brain
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
How skeletal muscle activity encourages blood flow through veins