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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
Although not all of the following muscle groups are commonly used, intramuscular injections may be given into the abdominals, biceps, calves, deltoids, gluteals, laterals, pectorals, quadriceps, trapezoids, and triceps.
As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.