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.
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All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
