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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
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.
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.
Drug-induced pharmacodynamic effects manifested in older adults include drug-induced renal toxicity, which can be a major factor when these adults are experiencing other kidney problems.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.