Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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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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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
This cat has accepted this pair of guinea pigs.
A draft horse sleeping while standing up
This lithograph of the New York draft riots, 1863, shows that although the rioters mainly targeted b