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For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
Elderly adults are living longer, and causes of death are shifting. At the same time, autopsy rates are at or near their lowest in history.
As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.