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According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
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.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.