On average, patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery can expect to lose about 60% of their excess weight after bypass surgery. This means that if you are about 150 pounds overweight, you can expect to lose …
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A red blood cell (RBC) lives for about 120 days before the plasma membrane becomes fragile and non-functional. Since the average male has about 5.4 million red blood cells per cubic millimeter of blood, the body must produce about 2 million new red blood cells a second. Yes, 2 million a second! The question is how many cubic millimeters of blood is there in the body?
My father has lost his balance and fallen serveral times and when I watch him get up and try to navigate a narrow space his balance seems worse. So I asked him the other day, …
Yesterday, I had surgery to remove a neuroma in my foot. It was my second operation because, well, my first surgeon mistakenly believed it to be between my 2nd and 3rd toes and so removed …
This is the latest information (week ending 6/20/09) on the H1N1 (Swine) Flu Pandemic in the U.S. For further information go to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the U.S. government.
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