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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
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.
The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.