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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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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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.
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Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system destroys its own healthy tissues. When this occurs, white blood cells cannot distinguish between pathogens and normal cells.
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Pneumonia. This common lung inflammation may be caused by bacteria, viruses, or fungi and is often d