Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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The U.S. Pharmacopeia Medication Errors Reporting Program states that approximately 50% of all medication errors involve insulin.
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