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Complications of influenza include: bacterial pneumonia, ear and sinus infections, dehydration, and worsening of chronic conditions such as asthma, congestive heart failure, or diabetes.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Prostaglandins were first isolated from human semen in Sweden in the 1930s. They were so named because the researcher thought that they came from the prostate gland. In fact, prostaglandins exist and are synthesized in almost every cell of the body.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.