Lower drug doses for elderly patients should be used first, with titrations of the dose as tolerated to prevent unwanted drug-related pharmacodynamic effects.
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Fungal nail infections account for up to 30% of all skin infections. They affect 5% of the general population—mostly people over the age of 70.
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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
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There are approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.
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True-color view of Mars seen through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1999