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Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
Chronic marijuana use can damage the white blood cells and reduce the immune system's ability to respond to disease by as much as 40%. Without a strong immune system, the body is vulnerable to all kinds of degenerative and infectious diseases.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA was discovered in 1961 in the United Kingdom. It if often referred to as a superbug. MRSA infections cause more deaths in the United States every year than AIDS.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.