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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
More than 50% of American adults have oral herpes, which is commonly known as "cold sores" or "fever blisters." The herpes virus can be active on the skin surface without showing any signs or causing any symptoms.
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.
Blood in the urine can be a sign of a kidney stone, glomerulonephritis, or other kidney problems.
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