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The U.S. Pharmacopeia Medication Errors Reporting Program states that approximately 50% of all medication errors involve insulin.
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.
Eat fiber! A diet high in fiber can help lower cholesterol levels by as much as 10%.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.