Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
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There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
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Hip fractures are the most serious consequences of osteoporosis. The incidence of hip fractures increases with each decade among patients in their 60s to patients in their 90s for both women and men of all populations. Men and women older than 80 years of age show the highest incidence of hip fractures.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
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The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.
The recent mass upheavals in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria gave political scientists a cha
In 2008, the U.S. economy suffered a gaping wound as several trillion dollars were ripped out of it.