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In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
Cocaine was isolated in 1860 and first used as a local anesthetic in 1884. Its first clinical use was by Sigmund Freud to wean a patient from morphine addiction. The fictional character Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be addicted to cocaine by injection.
Medications that are definitely not safe to take when breastfeeding include radioactive drugs, antimetabolites, some cancer (chemotherapy) agents, bromocriptine, ergotamine, methotrexate, and cyclosporine.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.