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Automated pill dispensing systems have alarms to alert patients when the correct dosing time has arrived. Most systems work with many varieties of medications, so patients who are taking a variety of drugs can still be in control of their dose regimen.
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The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.
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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
The age structure of human populations in West Africa and Western Europe, as of 2000.
human leukocyte on mesh fibrin
Physical and Perceptual Dimensions of Sound Waves
Chart showing average yearly dose of radiation from natural and human-made sources
Ant species richness by latitude.
Loci of Some Human Genes