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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.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
Drugs are in development that may cure asthma and hay fever once and for all. They target leukotrienes, which are known to cause tightening of the air passages in the lungs and increase mucus productions in nasal passages.
On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.

