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The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
Barbituric acid, the base material of barbiturates, was first synthesized in 1863 by Adolph von Bayer. His company later went on to synthesize aspirin for the first time, and Bayer aspirin is still a popular brand today.
As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.