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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
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.
Since 1988, the CDC has reported a 99% reduction in bacterial meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae, due to the introduction of the vaccine against it.