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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
ACTH levels are normally highest in the early morning (between 6 and 8 A.M.) and lowest in the evening (between 6 and 11 P.M.). Therefore, a doctor who suspects abnormal levels looks for low ACTH in the morning and high ACTH in the evening.
Nearly all drugs pass into human breast milk. How often a drug is taken influences the amount of drug that will pass into the milk. Medications taken 30 to 60 minutes before breastfeeding are likely to be at peak blood levels when the baby is nursing.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.