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Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
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.
Warfarin was developed as a consequence of the study of a strange bleeding disorder that suddenly occurred in cattle on the northern prairies of the United States in the early 1900s.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.