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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%