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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.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.