The U.S. Pharmacopeia Medication Errors Reporting Program states that approximately 50% of all medication errors involve insulin.
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Automated pill dispensing systems have alarms to alert patients when the correct dosing time has arrived. Most systems work with many varieties of medications, so patients who are taking a variety of drugs can still be in control of their dose regimen.
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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.
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
Red-Green Color Blindness Is a Sex-Linked Trait in Humans