The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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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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Each year in the United States, there are approximately six million pregnancies. This means that at any one time, about 4% of women in the United States are pregnant.
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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.
Alligators of various ages in Everglades National Park
Regional Variation in Income and Access to the Sea
Household Income in the United States by Quintiles, 2009