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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
ACTH levels are normally highest in the early morning (between 6 and 8 A.M.) and lowest in the evening (between 6 and 11 P.M.). Therefore, a doctor who suspects abnormal levels looks for low ACTH in the morning and high ACTH in the evening.
In the United States, congenital cytomegalovirus causes one child to become disabled almost every hour. CMV is the leading preventable viral cause of development disability in newborns. These disabilities include hearing or vision loss, and cerebral palsy.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.