Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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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.
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Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.