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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
Ether was used widely for surgeries but became less popular because of its flammability and its tendency to cause vomiting. In England, it was quickly replaced by chloroform, but this agent caused many deaths and lost popularity.
The human body's pharmacokinetics are quite varied. Our hair holds onto drugs longer than our urine, blood, or saliva. For example, alcohol can be detected in the hair for up to 90 days after it was consumed. The same is true for marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, methamphetamine, and nicotine.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.