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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was originally known as the Communicable Disease Center, which was formed to fight malaria. It was originally headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, since the Southern states faced the worst threat from malaria.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Sperm cells are so tiny that 400 to 500 million (400,000,000–500,000,000) of them fit onto 1 tsp.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all women age 65 years of age or older should be screened with bone densitometry.