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Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA was discovered in 1961 in the United Kingdom. It if often referred to as a superbug. MRSA infections cause more deaths in the United States every year than AIDS.
Despite claims by manufacturers, the supplement known as Ginkgo biloba was shown in a study of more than 3,000 participants to be ineffective in reducing development of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in older people.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.