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An identified risk factor for osteoporosis is the intake of excessive amounts of vitamin A. Dietary intake of approximately double the recommended daily amount of vitamin A, by women, has been shown to reduce bone mineral density and increase the chances for hip fractures compared with women who consumed the recommended daily amount (or less) of vitamin A.
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.
The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.