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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.