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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
After 5 years of being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, one every three patients will no longer be able to work.
Though Candida and Aspergillus species are the most common fungal pathogens causing invasive fungal disease in the immunocompromised, infections due to previously uncommon hyaline and dematiaceous filamentous fungi are occurring more often today. Rare fungal infections, once accurately diagnosed, may require surgical debridement, immunotherapy, and newer antifungals used singly or in combination with older antifungals, on a case-by-case basis.