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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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 National Institutes of Health have supported research into acupuncture. This has shown that acupuncture significantly reduced pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee, when used as a complement to conventional therapies.