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For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
Drugs are in development that may cure asthma and hay fever once and for all. They target leukotrienes, which are known to cause tightening of the air passages in the lungs and increase mucus productions in nasal passages.
The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
Lower drug doses for elderly patients should be used first, with titrations of the dose as tolerated to prevent unwanted drug-related pharmacodynamic effects.