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Only 12 hours after an egg cell is fertilized by a sperm cell, the egg cell starts to divide. As it continues to divide, it moves along the fallopian tube toward the uterus at about 1 inch per day.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
Though newer “smart” infusion pumps are increasingly becoming more sophisticated, they cannot prevent all programming and administration errors. Health care professionals that use smart infusion pumps must still practice the rights of medication administration and have other professionals double-check all high-risk infusions.
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.