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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
There are approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.
Hypertension is a silent killer because it is deadly and has no significant early symptoms. The danger from hypertension is the extra load on the heart, which can lead to hypertensive heart disease and kidney damage. This occurs without any major symptoms until the high blood pressure becomes extreme. Regular blood pressure checks are an important method of catching hypertension before it can kill you.