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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.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
The FDA recognizes 118 routes of administration.
The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.