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For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
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.
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
Hippocrates noted that blood separates into four differently colored liquids when removed from the body and examined: a pure red liquid mixed with white liquid material with a yellow-colored froth at the top and a black substance that settles underneath; he named these the four humors (for blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile).
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.