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Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
Signs and symptoms of a drug overdose include losing consciousness, fever or sweating, breathing problems, abnormal pulse, and changes in skin color.