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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.
More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
The U.S. Pharmacopeia Medication Errors Reporting Program states that approximately 50% of all medication errors involve insulin.