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In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
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.
The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.