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People with alcoholism are at a much greater risk of malnutrition than are other people and usually exhibit low levels of most vitamins (especially folic acid). This is because alcohol often takes the place of 50% of their daily intake of calories, with little nutritional value contained in it.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
Adult head lice are gray, about ? inch long, and often have a tiny dot on their backs. A female can lay between 50 and 150 eggs within the several weeks that she is alive. They feed on human blood.