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People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
Walt Disney helped combat malaria by making an animated film in 1943 called The Winged Scourge. This short film starred the seven dwarfs and taught children that mosquitos transmit malaria, which is a very bad disease. It advocated the killing of mosquitos to stop the disease.
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.