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Vital signs (blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate) should be taken before any drug administration. Patients should be informed not to use tobacco or caffeine at least 30 minutes before their appointment.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.