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Certain topical medications such as clotrimazole and betamethasone are not approved for use in children younger than 12 years of age. They must be used very cautiously, as directed by a doctor, to treat any child. Children have a much greater response to topical steroid medications.
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.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.