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Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis has a slowly progressive process that, unlike invasive aspergillosis, does not spread to other organ systems or the blood vessels. It most often affects middle-aged and elderly individuals, spreading to surrounding tissue in the lungs. The disease often does not respond to conventionally successful treatments, and requires individualized therapies in order to keep it from becoming life-threatening.
Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.