The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).
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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.
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The highest suicide rate in the United States is among people ages 65 years and older. Almost 15% of people in this age group commit suicide every year.
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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Edward Bellamy, author of the utopian novel Looking Backward (1888) Bellamy’s socialism worried many