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Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.
In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.