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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
Asthma occurs in one in 11 children and in one in 12 adults. African Americans and Latinos have a higher risk for developing asthma than other groups.