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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
For high blood pressure (hypertension), a new class of drug, called a vasopeptidase blocker (inhibitor), has been developed. It decreases blood pressure by simultaneously dilating the peripheral arteries and increasing the body's loss of salt.