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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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.
The term pharmacology is derived from the Greek words pharmakon("claim, medicine, poison, or remedy") and logos ("study").