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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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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Thyroid conditions may make getting pregnant impossible.
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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
Examples of interventions for physical comfort
Examples of characteristics measured by palpation
Examples of the most common X-ray positions and the images they produce.
Examples of glycosphingolipids
Examples of Capsules
Selected examples of variability in eukaryotic promoters