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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
Blastomycosis is often misdiagnosed, resulting in tragic outcomes. It is caused by a fungus living in moist soil, in wooded areas of the United States and Canada. If inhaled, the fungus can cause mild breathing problems that may worsen and cause serious illness and even death.
In 1885, the Lloyd Manufacturing Company of Albany, New York, promoted and sold "Cocaine Toothache Drops" at 15 cents per bottle! In 1914, the Harrison Narcotic Act brought the sale and distribution of this drug under federal control.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.

