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The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
Stroke kills people from all ethnic backgrounds, but the people at highest risk for fatal strokes are: black men, black women, Asian men, white men, and white women.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.