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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
The shortest mature adult human of whom there is independent evidence was Gul Mohammed in India. In 1990, he was measured in New Delhi and stood 22.5 inches tall.
As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.