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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
Bisphosphonates were first developed in the nineteenth century. They were first investigated for use in disorders of bone metabolism in the 1960s. They are now used clinically for the treatment of osteoporosis, Paget's disease, bone metastasis, multiple myeloma, and other conditions that feature bone fragility.
More than one-third of adult Americans are obese. Diseases that kill the largest number of people annually, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and hypertension, can be attributed to diet.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.