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Common abbreviations that cause medication errors include U (unit), mg (milligram), QD (every day), SC (subcutaneous), TIW (three times per week), D/C (discharge or discontinue), HS (at bedtime or "hours of sleep"), cc (cubic centimeters), and AU (each ear).
Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
The horizontal fraction bar was introduced by the Arabs.
Malaria was not eliminated in the United States until 1951. The term eliminated means that no new cases arise in a country for 3 years.