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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.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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.
More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.