Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
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Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
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In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
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Vaccines cause herd immunity. If the majority of people in a community have been vaccinated against a disease, an unvaccinated person is less likely to get the disease since others are less likely to become sick from it and spread the disease.
