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In inpatient settings, adverse drug events account for an estimated one in three of all hospital adverse events. They affect approximately 2 million hospital stays every year, and prolong hospital stays by between one and five days.
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
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In 1886, William Bates reported on the discovery of a substance produced by the adrenal gland that turned out to be epinephrine (adrenaline). In 1904, this drug was first artificially synthesized by Friedrich Stolz.
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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.