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Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).