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Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released reports detailing the deaths of infants (younger than 1 year of age) who died after being given cold and cough medications. This underscores the importance of educating parents that children younger than 2 years of age should never be given over-the-counter cold and cough medications without consulting their physicians.
Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.