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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
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.
When taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors, people should avoid a variety of foods, which include alcoholic beverages, bean curd, broad (fava) bean pods, cheese, fish, ginseng, protein extracts, meat, sauerkraut, shrimp paste, soups, and yeast.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.