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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.