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According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, more than 50 million Americans have some kind of food allergy. Food allergies affect between 4 and 6% of children, and 4% of adults, according to the CDC. The most common food allergies include shellfish, peanuts, walnuts, fish, eggs, milk, and soy.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
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.
Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was originally known as the Communicable Disease Center, which was formed to fight malaria. It was originally headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, since the Southern states faced the worst threat from malaria.