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Hip fractures are the most serious consequences of osteoporosis. The incidence of hip fractures increases with each decade among patients in their 60s to patients in their 90s for both women and men of all populations. Men and women older than 80 years of age show the highest incidence of hip fractures.
Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.