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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
In 1885, the Lloyd Manufacturing Company of Albany, New York, promoted and sold "Cocaine Toothache Drops" at 15 cents per bottle! In 1914, the Harrison Narcotic Act brought the sale and distribution of this drug under federal control.