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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
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.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
Most women experience menopause in their 50s. However, in 1994, an Italian woman gave birth to a baby boy when she was 61 years old.


