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When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
If you use artificial sweeteners, such as cyclamates, your eyes may be more sensitive to light. Other factors that will make your eyes more sensitive to light include use of antibiotics, oral contraceptives, hypertension medications, diuretics, and antidiabetic medications.
There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.