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Explore energy expenditure in various types of physical exercises, calculate the target heart rate for your workout or get information about yoga and Pilates exercises.
Estimate your blood alcohol content (BAC) based on the number of drinks, the elapsed time, your gender and your body weight.
Find statistics on global life expectancies and causes of death.
Interpret the results of a visual acuity test and typical eyeglass prescriptions or explore optical properties of corrective lenses.
Explore statistics on health-care expenditure and health indicators, such as available health-care workers, sanitation, immunization and antenatal care.
Find hierarchical relationships, location and connectivity information for individual organs, bones, muscles or blood vessels; get properties of teeth; or explore body measurement statistics, including height, weight and body mass index (BMI).
Find information on patient statistics and drug treatment correlated with a particular medical condition.
Explore a reference distribution for medical tests that measure blood components, such as serum sodium, potassium, glucose and creatinine.
Find information about the chemical composition, drug interactions, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of typical drugs.
Explore public health statistics, including the size of the HIV/AIDS population and mortality rates for different countries.
Find information on International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes, which were adopted to classify diagnoses in health-care settings.
Explore formulas to assess blood chemistry, hormone levels as well as kidney and respiratory function or use the pregnancy calculator to estimate your due date and fetal development.
Explore biological decay properties of radionuclides typically used in nuclear medicine.
Locate a hospital in the US and get associated information, such as the number of health-care providers, beds, visits and surgeries.