Patients who have been on total parenteral nutrition for more than a few days may need to have foods gradually reintroduced to give the digestive tract time to start working again.
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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.
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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
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The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
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The oldest recorded age was 122. Madame Jeanne Calment was born in France in 1875 and died in 1997. She was a vegetarian and loved olive oil, port wine, and chocolate.
Various types of cells within the human body.
From Cells to Organs and Organ Systems
Anemic Red Blood Cells
Invasion and metastasis by cancer cells
Opener Colored scanning electron micrograph of two prostate cancer cells in the final stages of cell