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Never take aspirin without food because it is likely to irritate your stomach. Never give aspirin to children under age 12. Overdoses of aspirin have the potential to cause deafness.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
The heart is located in the center of the chest, with part of it tipped slightly so that it taps against the left side of the chest.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.