Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
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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.
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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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All adults should have their cholesterol levels checked once every 5 years. During 2009–2010, 69.4% of Americans age 20 and older reported having their cholesterol checked within the last five years.