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In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.