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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Symptoms of kidney problems include a loss of appetite, back pain (which may be sudden and intense), chills, abdominal pain, fluid retention, nausea, the urge to urinate, vomiting, and fever.
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.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.