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When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA was discovered in 1961 in the United Kingdom. It if often referred to as a superbug. MRSA infections cause more deaths in the United States every year than AIDS.
People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.
After 5 years of being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, one every three patients will no longer be able to work.
More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.