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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
About 80% of major fungal systemic infections are due to Candida albicans. Another form, Candida peritonitis, occurs most often in postoperative patients. A rare disease, Candida meningitis, may follow leukemia, kidney transplant, other immunosuppressed factors, or when suffering from Candida septicemia.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
Elderly adults are at greatest risk of stroke and myocardial infarction and have the most to gain from prophylaxis. Patients ages 60 to 80 years with blood pressures above 160/90 mm Hg should benefit from antihypertensive treatment.