In inpatient settings, adverse drug events account for an estimated one in three of all hospital adverse events. They affect approximately 2 million hospital stays every year, and prolong hospital stays by between one and five days.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released reports detailing the deaths of infants (younger than 1 year of age) who died after being given cold and cough medications. This underscores the importance of educating parents that children younger than 2 years of age should never be given over-the-counter cold and cough medications without consulting their physicians.
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There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
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Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.
Audiometry. The child in this photograph is undergoing a hearing test with an audiologist.
Language evolution
A family of African Americans arrive in Chicago, migrants from the American South, in an exodus that
John Gast, American Progress.
Types of ecosystem service vs. total global value per year
A promissory note has a face value of $6000 and it has a date of issue of June 1 this year. The ...