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The types of cancer that alpha interferons are used to treat include hairy cell leukemia, melanoma, follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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.
The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.