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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
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.
Recent studies have shown that the number of medication errors increases in relation to the number of orders that are verified per pharmacist, per work shift.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.