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Over time, chronic hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections can progress to advanced liver disease, liver failure, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Unlike other forms, more than 80% of hepatitis C infections become chronic and lead to liver disease. When combined with hepatitis B, hepatitis C now accounts for 75% percent of all cases of liver disease around the world. Liver failure caused by hepatitis C is now leading cause of liver transplants in the United States.
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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
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Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.
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Automated pill dispensing systems have alarms to alert patients when the correct dosing time has arrived. Most systems work with many varieties of medications, so patients who are taking a variety of drugs can still be in control of their dose regimen.
The “Infertility Belt” In certain countries in Central Africa, infertility rates are as high as 30%
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Example of the Index to Diseases and Injuries.
Common Risk Factors
Factors Affecting the Environmental Lapse Rate (ELR): Heating or Cooling of the Lower Atmosphere
Formation of a DNA loop allows factors that bind to an enhancer or silencer