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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
The senior population grows every year. Seniors older than 65 years of age now comprise more than 13% of the total population. However, women outlive men. In the 85-and-over age group, there are only 45 men to every 100 women.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.
A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.