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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
Each year in the United States, there are approximately six million pregnancies. This means that at any one time, about 4% of women in the United States are pregnant.
As of mid-2016, 18.2 million people were receiving advanced retroviral therapy (ART) worldwide. This represents between 43–50% of the 34–39.8 million people living with HIV.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.