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Walt Disney helped combat malaria by making an animated film in 1943 called The Winged Scourge. This short film starred the seven dwarfs and taught children that mosquitos transmit malaria, which is a very bad disease. It advocated the killing of mosquitos to stop the disease.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Atropine was named after the Greek goddess Atropos, the oldest and ugliest of the three sisters known as the Fates, who controlled the destiny of men.