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The National Institutes of Health have supported research into acupuncture. This has shown that acupuncture significantly reduced pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee, when used as a complement to conventional therapies.
Each year in the United States, there are approximately six million pregnancies. This means that at any one time, about 4% of women in the United States are pregnant.
The U.S. Pharmacopeia Medication Errors Reporting Program states that approximately 50% of all medication errors involve insulin.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.