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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
You should not take more than 1,000 mg of vitamin E per day. Doses above this amount increase the risk of bleeding problems that can lead to a stroke.
Though newer “smart” infusion pumps are increasingly becoming more sophisticated, they cannot prevent all programming and administration errors. Health care professionals that use smart infusion pumps must still practice the rights of medication administration and have other professionals double-check all high-risk infusions.