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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released reports detailing the deaths of infants (younger than 1 year of age) who died after being given cold and cough medications. This underscores the importance of educating parents that children younger than 2 years of age should never be given over-the-counter cold and cough medications without consulting their physicians.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
Interferon was scarce and expensive until 1980, when the interferon gene was inserted into bacteria using recombinant DNA technology, allowing for mass cultivation and purification from bacterial cultures.
Malaria was not eliminated in the United States until 1951. The term eliminated means that no new cases arise in a country for 3 years.