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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.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.
About one in five American adults and teenagers have had a genital herpes infection—and most of them don't know it. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those people who do not have genital herpes.