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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People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
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As many as 20% of Americans have been infected by the fungus known as Histoplasmosis. While most people are asymptomatic or only have slight symptoms, infection can progress to a rapid and potentially fatal superinfection.
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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
Adolescent white lion in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Psoriasis. This photograph demonstrates the characteristic white skin patches of this condition.
