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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
The highest suicide rate in the United States is among people ages 65 years and older. Almost 15% of people in this age group commit suicide every year.