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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was originally known as the Communicable Disease Center, which was formed to fight malaria. It was originally headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, since the Southern states faced the worst threat from malaria.
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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.