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Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.