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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
In 1886, William Bates reported on the discovery of a substance produced by the adrenal gland that turned out to be epinephrine (adrenaline). In 1904, this drug was first artificially synthesized by Friedrich Stolz.
The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).