The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
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The National Institutes of Health have supported research into acupuncture. This has shown that acupuncture significantly reduced pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee, when used as a complement to conventional therapies.
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All adverse reactions are commonly charted in red ink in the patient's record and usually are noted on the front of the chart. Failure to follow correct documentation procedures may result in malpractice lawsuits.
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
Coleman's parabiosis experiments revealed a satiety factor in wild-type mice that was absent or
teaching children about some of the world’s environmental problems
Many children learn not to express prejudice overtly but may feel it implicitly.
John Rawls (1921–2002)
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