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People with alcoholism are at a much greater risk of malnutrition than are other people and usually exhibit low levels of most vitamins (especially folic acid). This is because alcohol often takes the place of 50% of their daily intake of calories, with little nutritional value contained in it.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
ACTH levels are normally highest in the early morning (between 6 and 8 A.M.) and lowest in the evening (between 6 and 11 P.M.). Therefore, a doctor who suspects abnormal levels looks for low ACTH in the morning and high ACTH in the evening.