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.
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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.
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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
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More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
