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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Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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Alcohol acts as a diuretic. Eight ounces of water is needed to metabolize just 1 ounce of alcohol.
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Elderly adults are at greatest risk of stroke and myocardial infarction and have the most to gain from prophylaxis. Patients ages 60 to 80 years with blood pressures above 160/90 mm Hg should benefit from antihypertensive treatment.
True-color view of Mars seen through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1999