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Lower drug doses for elderly patients should be used first, with titrations of the dose as tolerated to prevent unwanted drug-related pharmacodynamic effects.
A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Although the Roman numeral for the number 4 has always been taught to have been "IV," according to historians, the ancient Romans probably used "IIII" most of the time. This is partially backed up by the fact that early grandfather clocks displayed IIII for the number 4 instead of IV. Early clockmakers apparently thought that the IIII balanced out the VIII (used for the number 8) on the clock face and that it just looked better.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.