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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
The National Institutes of Health have supported research into acupuncture. This has shown that acupuncture significantly reduced pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee, when used as a complement to conventional therapies.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.