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After 5 years of being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, one every three patients will no longer be able to work.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.