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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
Thyroid conditions may make getting pregnant impossible.
Though methadone is often used to treat dependency on other opioids, the drug itself can be abused. Crushing or snorting methadone can achieve the opiate "rush" desired by addicts. Improper use such as these can lead to a dangerous dependency on methadone. This drug now accounts for nearly one-third of opioid-related deaths.