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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
Though Candida and Aspergillus species are the most common fungal pathogens causing invasive fungal disease in the immunocompromised, infections due to previously uncommon hyaline and dematiaceous filamentous fungi are occurring more often today. Rare fungal infections, once accurately diagnosed, may require surgical debridement, immunotherapy, and newer antifungals used singly or in combination with older antifungals, on a case-by-case basis.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.